A three-member team of the State police’s Human Rights Protection Cell (HRPC) visited Sambalpur on Saturday and began investigation into suspicious death of a tribal youth in custody at the Ainthapali police station.
The team led by HRPC SP Gopal Krishna Patnaik visited the police station and saw different spots, including the lock-up and the bath room.
Sources said they measured the length, breadth, height of the room where his dead body was found in order to find out if once can suicide in such a room.
The team also interrogated the three police personnel, including the IIC, against whom the allegation of murder is made.
Sources said the HRPC team is doing the enquiry independently even without taking help of the local police.
“We showed them the spots of occurrences of different incidents,” a police officer said.
After visiting the Ainthapali PS, the team also went to the home of the deceased Abinash Munda and interacted with the family members and some of the villagers. The family members reportedly narrated the things that happened in the police station and during the house search.
The team, as it is learnt, has assured the villagers to submit an impartial inquiry report to the DGP.