Even as a probe is underway into allegations of a teenage boy being tortured at a police outpost in the state capital after he was apprehended on the suspicion of theft, another report of the excesses of the men in khaki has come from Bijnor where a youth was battered to death by cops after he failed to produce his two-wheeler’s papers during vehicle checking drive on Friday evening.

The people later staged a massive protest but the cops used force to chase them away to conceal their brutality.

Reports said that Jogendra Kumar was going on a motorcycle when the Bijnor police stopped him for checking on Friday evening. Jogendra’s brother Manjit Kumar claimed that his brother called him and told him that the cops had stopped him and were demanding papers of the motorcycle.

Manjit said that his brother asked him to come to the spot with the papers so that he could show them to the police.

Manjit said that when he reached the spot, he was shocked to find his brother lying on the road. When he enquired about Jogendra, he was told by the cops that Jogendra had fainted.

Manjit said that the police officers present there asked him to immediately take his brother from there but before he could call anyone for help, Jogendra died on the spot.

Reports said that the news of the death of a youth during vehicle checking spread like a wildfire and several local residents and the relatives of the deceased reached the spot and demanded action.

However, when the cops removed the body and sent it for post-mortem, the agitated crowd reached the police station and staged a massive protest, demanding registration of a case against the guilty cops.

Later, senior police officers reached the spot and to hush up the matter, they lathi-charged the protesters and chased them away.

The local officers also denied that the youth died due to any assault and claimed that as the cops stopped him for checking, he fainted and died on his own.

It may be mentioned that on Friday, it was alleged that a 14-year-old boy was picked up by the state capital police on Thursday and taken to Telibagh outpost under PGI Police Station, after an FIR was lodged in which the complainant expressed suspicion that the teenager was involved in the theft of an e-rickshaw.

The teenager, who used to drive e-rickshaw to help his father, a labourer, was tortured and pressured to confess that he had committed the crime, his family members alleged.

Pictures showing swelling and injuries on the boy’s legs were widely shared on social media after which the Lucknow police ordered a probe.