Orissa HC directs govt to pay compensation for custodial death
The court expressed displeasure over slow progress of Crime Branch probe and rejected the police version that the victim died due to falling down from the motorcycle.
The court expressed displeasure over slow progress of Crime Branch probe and rejected the police version that the victim died due to falling down from the motorcycle.
He had no one to represent his interests or to give him legal assistance while in custody. The legal system appears to have completely failed, the Division Bench of Chief Justice Dr S Muralidhar and Justice MS Raman observed.
Death of 35-year-old Mohammad Khadeer Khan following custodial torture has come as a major embarrassment for the BRS government in the state.
Adjudicating a petition filed by Supreme Court Advocate and Human Rights Activist Radhakanta Tripathy, a division Bench of the NHRC sought compliance report within six weeks.
The victim was arrested on 23 October 2022 at midnight without following due process of law by the police and taken to the Bhadrak district,
The Madras HC had transferred the case to the CBCID as an interim measure to protect evidence till the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) takes up the case, as decided by the Tamil Nadu government.
Zaidi was earlier suspended in 2017 after his arrest in connection with the custodial death of a Nepalese national in the Gudia rape and murder case.
According to reports, Pradeep Tomar was beaten, stabbed and given electric shocks repeatedly by police, while his 11-year-old son was also in the police station.
Superintendent of Police Khyati Garg said the man was caught on suspicion of theft on Saturday and later died in custody.
"The deceased was not examined by the probe agency,” said the NIA in a statement, adding that the man was neither called for questioning nor was he examined at any other location in connection with cases being investigated by the agency.
