UP: Man accused of theft dies in police custody.
Highlight
- A 32-year-old man accused of theft dies in police custody in Najibabad, Bijnor district of UP
- A person named Sunil Prajapati was arrested on 4 March
- His family alleged that he was “tortured by the police” in custody
A 32-year-old man accused of theft died in police custody at Najibabad in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnor district.
A man named Sunil Prajapati was arrested on Friday and his family alleged that he was “tortured by the police”.
SP Dharamvir Singh claimed that he was “in a state of intoxication” and died due to “overdose of narcotic pills”.
Prajapati was arrested for stealing sacks of wheat from the house of village head Pradeep Kumar.
“Kumar called the police and handed him over. Sunil was drunk. We recovered 70 ‘narcotic’ pills from his possession and took him to the police station where his condition started deteriorating on Saturday. He was taken to a private hospital, where He later died. The post-mortem report of the deceased revealed the cause of death to be a heart attack. We contacted the relatives of the man, who told the police that Sunil was missing for the past six days. He was having seizures, said the SP.
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