Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has recommended the State Government to pay a compensation of Rs2 lakh to kin of the victim, who had committed suicide in police custody in Rajgarh.
The recommendation came after hearing vicitm’s mother Sushila Jathav who had complained about the atrocities faced by the victim in police custody.
A two-member committee comprising acting Chairperson of Commission Justice AK Saxena and member
Virendra Mohan Kanwar recommended CID investigation into the death case of the victim which was reported in police custody and if any police personnel is found guilty, a case should be filed against the accused police personnel.
Vicitm’s mother Sushila Jathav has claimed that at around 2 o’clock in the night around 10-12 police personnel brought her son Vijay home and were beating him brutally. They told that the victim had committed theft and started searching for the valuables in the house.
At the time of searching also the victim was crying and pleading for his innocence but the police personnel did not paid heed on his pleas and they took him along with them to the police station and were constantly beating him.
On the next when Sushila Jathav and her husband went to Kotwali police station where they were not allowed to meet the victim and provide him food. The police personnel at the police station abused them and were thrown out of the police station.
After two days the family got information that police have taken Vijay’s body for postmortem and locked the body in the mortuary.
They told that the body is not of victim.