Youth dies in police station, body dumped

January 2, 2017

New Delhi, Jan 2: In a case of an attempted police cover-up, a 25-year-old man first fell to death under mysterious circumstances from the terrace of the Adarsh Nagar police station following which some policemen allegedly dumped his body elsewhere to pass it off as an unidentified corpse.

sompal Six policemen, including the Station House Officer of the police station, an Assistant Sub Inspector and four constables, have been booked for committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder and suspended till the probe is completed.

Fruit seller

The family of the deceased, Sompal, claims he sold fruits at the Azadpur wholesale market.

According to the police, Sompal was picked up and brought to the police station for questioning on December 28 following a PCR call about a quarrel.

The sequence of events from his arrival at the police station to his death is being probed, said Deputy Commissioner of Police (North West) Milind Mahadeo Dumbere.

“The accused policemen claim that he was being questioned at the investigating officers’ room and was left alone for a few minutes which provided him an opportunity to rush to the terrace and jump. We are verifying these claims,” Mr. Dumbere said.

Body dumped

Followed the death, the body was dumped on Shah Alam Bandh Road by Inspector Sanjay Kumar, the SHO, and constables Kuldeep, Surender, Indraj and Sulender, according to the FIR. The name of the Assistant Sub Inspector, the sixth accused, was not revealed. The complaint was filed by a sub-inspector of the same police station.

The complaint said this was a bid to destroy evidence so that the incident is not recorded as a case of custodial death. A few hours after the death, a PCR call was made about an unidentified body lying near the Majlis Park metro station. Constable Kuldeep was assigned to respond to the call. Sompal was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead.

“We followed the standard procedure for identification and he was identified as Sompal, a resident of C block,” the FIR said.

On December 30, a whistleblower from the police station alerted the Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Model Town sub division. The matter was communicated to senior officers and all the staff members were questioned.

Mr. Dumbere said the accused admitted that they had indeed disposed off the body, flouting procedures, following which legal and administrative action was initiated.

Family’s reaction

But it was not till Sunday that Sompal’s family found about his death, they said.

“Around 2 p.m. a police team reached our house and asked for his picture. When we inquired, they told us that he had been arrested. It was only after coming to the police station that we found out about his death,” said Sompal’s brother.

According to the police, Sompal had a criminal record and had been booked for robbery, theft and assault in the past.

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All the responsible police officers should be sacked and arrested. Fair compsation should be given to the dead boy's family and a Govt job should be given to his close relative. also, the police officers should be penalised for this unhuman act.

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Cops booked for custodial death in Bengaluru Rural

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April 12,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 12: Two police officials have been booked for murder in connection with the alleged custodial death of a theft accused in Bengaluru rural district, police said on Saturday.

A case of murder has been registered against inspector Raghu and sub-inspector Rakesh C for the alleged custodial death of Munikulla on Friday afternoon, Superintendent of Police, Bengaluru rural district, Ravi D Channannavar told reporters.

"Yes. A case has been registered and transferred to CID," he said.

Munikulla, a resident of Nadavatti village, was picked up by the police on April 7, his wife Dhanalakshmi told the media on Saturday.

"Policemen took my husband with them. They beat him up and killed him," she said.

Alleging that Munikulla was a victim of police high- handedness, Hoskote MLA Sharath Bachegowda said he had lodged a complaint with the state DGP Praveen Sood demanding a CID inquiry into the case.

An FIR was registered against Munikulla on Friday evening based on a complaint by the cashier of the liquor store, who had claimed that the CCTV footage showed victim's involvement.

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Depressed due to factory shutdown, Delhi man kills children before jumping in front of metro train

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February 10,2020

New Delhi, Feb 10: A 44-year-old man allegedly killed his daughter and son before ending his life by jumping in front of a Delhi metro train at Haiderpur Badli Mor station on Sunday, police said.

No suicide note has been recovered, but police claimed that the man, Madhur Malani, was depressed since his sandpaper-manufacturing factory was closed some six months ago due to financial crunch leaving him jobless. Madhur's parents had been supporting his family financially since then.

He used to stay with his wife Rupali, daughter Samiksha (14) and six-year-old son Shraiyans at a rented house in northwest Delhi's Shalimar Bagh area, they said.

Rupali was not at home when Madhur strangled their children. He might have also smothered their daughter but the exact cause of death would be ascertained only after the post-mortem reports arrive, a police official said.

After killing his two children, he jumped in front of an approaching train at Haiderpur Badli Mor Metro station following which he was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared him 'brought dead', the official said.

Metro services on the Yellow Line were briefly delayed due to the incident.

"Delay in services from Samaypur Badli to GTB Nagar due to a passenger on track at Haiderpur Badli Mor," the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) tweeted.

After about 15 minutes, it again tweeted that normal services have been restored. The Delhi Metro's Yellow Line connects Samaypur Badli in Delhi to HUDA City Centre in Gurgaon.

The suicide was reported to the police around 5.40 pm while the Shalimar Bagh Police station received a call about the killings around 6.50 pm.

On reaching the house, police found bodies of the children lying in beds in two rooms. During enquiry, it was learnt that their father has left the house, a senior police officer said.

While police were trying to trace Madhur, they learnt about a suicide at the metro station. On verifying the details, it surfaced that Madhur committed suicide after killing his children, the officer said.

Rupali told police that she had gone to a nearby market around 3 pm and on returning home she found the bodies of her children while her husband was missing.

A case under relevant sections of the IPC has been registered and investigation was underway, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) Vijayanta Arya said.

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