The State Congress has demanded CBI enquiry, immediate suspension of responsible police personnel and officials and compensation of Rs 25 lakh each for the kin of a youth who died in police custody and the other youth killed in police firing in Singrauli.
Senior Congress leader and former leader of the Opposition in the State Assembly Ajay Singh on Monday reached Singrauli to take stock of the situation after the incident. “This is the first anti-people gift of the Bharatiya Janata Party to the people of State after getting fresh mandate. The Congress party would fight against this on the roads,” Singh said.
Singh also visited the hospital to enquire the health of those injured in the police firing. He also called on the family members of Akhlesh Sahu who died in police custody. The senior Congress leader also met the family members of Nasim Siddiqui who died in police firing besides meeting the locals to take detailed account of the incidence.
later, Singh along with former State Minister Vanshmani Prasad Verma and other Congress leaders and workers reached the district collector office and handed over a memorandum to the collector demanding CBI enquiry of the Sahu’s death in police custody and the incidence police firing. Demand for immediate suspension of the Superintendent of Police and Town Inspector responsible for custodial death and police firing was also demanded in the memorandum besides a compensation of Rs 25 lakh each for the kin of the dead.
The former leader of Opposition said that after getting the fresh mandate and a day before the oath of Chief Minister the incidence of police firing on the innocent people is a serious thing and asked the chief minister to immediately take strict action against those responsible for it.
Notably, enraged over the death of Sahu who was detained by police and later went missing, a large number of people staged a road blockade and set afire several vehicles, including District Collector M Selvendran's official car on Friday. As the cane-charge failed to control the violent mob, police opened fire, leading to the death of Siddiqui.