Following the murder of a 22-year-old man in police custody in Kasganj, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, on the 10th November, questioned the state of human rights in Uttar Pradesh. “Is there anything left called human rights in Uttar Pradesh?” Rahul Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi. A 22-year-old man who had been summoned for interrogation in an abduction case died at the Kasganj police station on Tuesday, with his relatives saying that he was assassinated by the police.
On the other hand, the authorities alleged that Altaf strangled himself in a locked-up lavatory with a string from his jacket’s hood. According to them, five police officers have been suspended for carelessness in the aftermath of the event. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress national secretary, stated that the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh was “very bad.”
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Kasganj Superintendent of Police (SP) Rohan Pramod Botre recounted the sequence of events this Wednesday: “One Altaf was called for questioning in Kasganj police station in a case related to IPC section 363 and 366 on Tuesday morning.” “During interrogation, he requested the policemen to let him go to the washroom and was allowed to use the washroom inside the lock-up,” the SP added.
“He was wearing a black jacket. He tried to strangulate himself with a string of the (jacket’s) hood that he tied to the tap of the toilet. When he did not return, the policemen went inside and found him unconscious. He was rushed to the community health center in Ashok Nagar, where he died,” the SP further added. “The lax policemen will be punished. We have suspended five policemen in this connection,” he said. The victim’s family, on the other hand, claims that the cops murdered him.
