THE WAILS might be heard within the slender lane exterior the home situated within the small Bijnor village in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday. “If he had made a mistake, they may have despatched him to jail. Why kill my boy?” the mom cries, tears streaking down her cheeks as she seems to be at her 16-year-old son’s physique mendacity on the bottom in a black physique bag.
On October 13, the boy and his buddy, a 17-year-old lady from a close-by village, fled to Ambala. After the lady’s father filed an FIR accusing the boy of kidnapping his daughter, a police workforce accompanied by the lady’s kin traced the duo to Ambala. On their manner again to their Bijnor villages, almost 270 km away from Ambala, the boy allegedly died on the personal residence in Shamli (in UP’s Muzaffarnagar district) belonging to the Sub-Inspector who was heading the police workforce.
With the boy’s household alleging he was killed in custody, a case of prison conspiracy has been filed at Shamli police station towards three of the lady’s relations and 4 police personnel, together with the SI. “There have been a number of procedural lapses in the way in which this case was dealt with. The lady’s relations have been arrested. The police officers involved have been suspended pending investigation,” Bijnor Superintendent of Police (Metropolis) Sunil Vajpayee instructed The Indian Specific.
To a question on why civilians had been accompanying the police, SP Vajpayee says, “From the police stopping at his (SI Sunil Kumar Mitalia’s) personal residence and asking the lady’s kin to accompany them to the boy’s dying — it’s all a large number. We’re ready for the boy’s post-mortem report,” he says. Alleging that her son’s physique had “bruises throughout”, his mom claims, “There have been marks throughout his physique, together with his personal elements.” Calling her son and the lady “college sweethearts”, she claimed that “solely the lady’s father disapproved of their relationship”.
She says, “My son moved to Ambala almost 5 months in the past and was working with a personal firm there. Since he was recognized with dengue 15 days in the past, I requested him to come back dwelling.”
Late on October 12, he reportedly instructed his household that he was going to see the Ramlila programme together with his mates on the neighbouring village. “I didn’t know that he was going to satisfy the lady (in her village, almost 3 km away). We had earlier requested her household to maintain her away from my son. Their relationship is why we had despatched him to Ambala. He had returned dwelling simply 10 days in the past,” she says.
Round 1.30 am on October 13, a neighborhood allegedly noticed the couple collectively on the Ramlila and knowledgeable the lady’s father.
The lady’s aunt, 41, says, “Since my brother had caught her speaking to that boy on the telephone almost 5 months in the past, my niece was confined to the home and her telephone was taken away. She stole the important thing to the principle door to satisfy that boy. Think about my brother’s shock when somebody knowledgeable him that his daughter was roaming round on a motorbike with the boy.”
Practically quarter-hour later, the lady’s grandmother says, her father noticed the bike approaching the home. “When the boy noticed him (the lady’s father) standing exterior the home, as a substitute of stopping the bike, he sped away,” she says.
Round 2 am on October 13, the police criticism says, the lady’s father went to the boy’s village to tell his household that their son had “kidnapped” his daughter. The lady’s household claims that his household “didn’t heed this info”.
Round 8 am the identical day, the lady’s father filed an FIR on the native police station alleging that the boy had kidnapped his daughter. A workforce headed by SI Mitalia was fashioned to search for the couple.
The lady’s grandmother alleges, “My son and two different kin determined to accompany the police after the (sub) inspector instructed us that we must pay for the gasoline.” She claims they’d requested the boy’s household to accompany them too however “they didn’t have the cash to pay the police”.
In keeping with Bijnor police, the couple was apprehended in Ambala, almost 270 km from the lady’s village. On the way in which again to her village, SI Mitalia reportedly determined to cease at his personal residence in Shamli, the place the boy allegedly died whereas in police custody. “SI Mitalia, head constable Rajeev Kumar, constable Anu Rani, Station Home Officer Avneet Mann, the lady’s father, uncle and her cousin have been booked in reference to the boy’s dying,” the police say.
On Tuesday, 5 policemen had been stationed exterior the lady’s two-storey home, which was locked from exterior. The favored snack store run by her father too was locked. Locals say the snack store had been doing properly for the reason that pandemic. Accusing her niece of “bringing disgrace” to the household, her aunt stated, “Her father, uncle and cousin are in jail due to her affair. My niece and the boy studied in the identical college. That’s when their love drama began.” On the boy’s village, as his father planted one final kiss on his son’s face, his mom cries, “All of them ought to be hanged. They’ve snatched away my son. Police had been concerned in his homicide.”
