The Crime Branch (CB) has registered a murder case against four police officers for their alleged involvement in the custodial death of a person at the Jeypore Town police station in Koraput district in 2017.
Akash Mahuria of Jeypore was allegedly beaten to death in the police station on January 30, 2017.
Police had then claimed that Mahuria, against whom a number of cases are lodged, fell and died when they were chasing to nab him.
The police officers against whom the murder case has been registered are Jeypore police station’s former Inspector-in-Charge Tapan Narayan Rath, former Sub-Inspectors Siba Prasad Sahu and Rajesh Baliarsingh and former Jeypore SDPO Rajendra Prasad Senapati.
A case has been registered against the accused under Sections 302, 323, 342, 325, 505 and 34 of the IPC. A team of the Crime Branch led by ASP Ramchandra Thamba would probe into the case.
Deceased Mahuria’s mother Prabina had lodged a complaint with the Crime Branch, recently. The woman alleged that the cops took his son forcibly and assaulted him at the police station, which led to his death.