A two-member Crime Branch team headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), entrusted for fresh investigation into immolation death of two brothers in the headquarters town, on Friday visited their house at Machhua Sahi under the Town police station.
DSP Sarbeswar Sahu talked with the family members of the deceased concerning the incident which occurred in the small hours on November 25, 2012. This was Sahu’s first visit to the town after he was assigned with the investigation following a change of the old team.
The State investigating agency took up the matter after the family members demanded a probe into the fatal incident. The local police, after the incident, while had claimed that the duo Sk Sabir (30) and his younger brother Sk Sajid (27) had set themselves ablaze by pouring kerosene in order to evade arrest, the deceased’s family members, on the other hand, had alleged that the police had set them on fire.
They had alleged the involvement of town police IIC Tariq Ahmed and other staff members. On a compliant of the father of the deceased, a case was registered under Sections 458, 323, 341, 307, 306, 380 and 34 of IPC against Ahmed and others.