After Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra targeted the Uttar Pradesh government over rising custodial deaths in the state, UP Congress president, Ajai Rai, on Tuesday, met Director General of Police Prashant Kumar, and handed him a memorandum, demanding immediate intervention to establish rule of law and also to take action against the guilty policemen.

In an official communiqué of the UP Congress, the party spokesman claimed that deaths in police custody were increasing continuously in Uttar Pradesh. He said that according to the report presented in the Lok Sabha, six people were dying in police custody every day in the country and Uttar Pradesh was number one in this case.

In the year 2021-22, 501 people have died in police custody in Uttar Pradesh alone, which is a symbol of the anarchy prevailing in the state, he added.

In Jalaun district, a person named Rajkumar died mysteriously in police custody recently.

According to media reports, in Chitrakoot also a person named Anshu Kumar was arrested and taken away by the police, and his body was later found on the track of Panhai railway station.

The UP Congress spokesman further claimed that taking these matters seriously, a delegation of UP Congress Committee led by state president Ajay Rai on Tuesday met the DGP and submitted a memorandum to draw his attention to the deaths occurring in police custody in the state as well as incidents of robbery and murder, harassment of women, mob lynching in Aligarh and Shamli districts of western UP and demanded immediate establishment of law and order in the state and strict action against the guilty policemen.