New Delhi: Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday questioned the human rights in Uttar Pradesh after a 22-year-old child died in police custody in Kasganj.
“Is there something called human rights left in Uttar Pradesh?” Gandhi asked the tweet in Hindi.
A 22-year-old man called for questioning in the kidnapping case died in the police component of Kasganj Tuesday, with his family members allegating that he was killed by police personnel.
However, the police claimed that Altaf suffocated himself by using a series of jacket hoods in the small room from locking.
Five policemen had been suspended because of negligence after the incident, they said.
Congress Secretary General Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the legal situation and order above were “very bad”.
“Obviously from the events such as the death of Altaf in KasGanj, Arun Valmiki in Agra, Rajesh Kori in Sultanpur in police custody that the protector has become a ranging state Safe here, “he said in Tweet in Hindi.
Separating the sequence of events, Rohan Pramod Botre Police Supervisors (SP) said on Wednesday: “One Altaf (from Locality Syed Nagla) was called to be questioned in the KasGanj police component in the case related to the IPC section 363 (kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping, Kidnapping or induces a woman to force her marriage) on Tuesday morning.
“During interrogation, she asked the police to let her go to the restroom and was allowed to use a small room in locking,” said SP.
“He wore a black jacket.
He tried to strangle himself with a series of hoods (jackets) he tied to the toilet tap.
When he didn’t return, the police went inside and found him unconsciously.
He is in a hurry.
He was in a hurry to the public health center in Ashok Nagar, where he died, “SP said” Police LAX will be punished.
We have suspended five policemen in this connection, “he said.
Kin the victim, however, accused him of being killed by the police.
Rahul Gandhi raises questions about the condition of human rights above
