In the case which resulted in the death of a scheduled caste man Jitendra Das in Tehri district, it has been established in the investigation by district police that one of the accused Rohit Aswal alias Gabbar who was arrested on May 9 was not present at the time of incident on the night of April 26.
A report has been submitted by Narendranagar circle officer in the court under the section 169 in the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
Aswal had been arrested following a police complaint naming him and six others filed by deceased Jitendra Das’s sister accusing them of beating Das to death.
Director General (DG) Law and Order, Ashok Kumar told The Pioneer, “If the alibi of Gabbar’s are found correct in our investigation then he will be taken out. If any other accused claims to have alibis too, we will investigate that.”
Narendranagar CO Uttam Singh who is also the investigating officer of this case said, “In my investigation it has been found that he was not present at the incident area on the said night.
A report has been submitted to the court on Friday regarding this.”
Manager of a hotel in Dehradun, Chain Singh, who provided the CCTV footage of Rahul working at the hotel here on April 26 said, “We are happy with the decision and stand by him.
If required we are ready to give statement in his support. An innocent man should not be behind bars.”
According to the complaint that was filed by deceased Jitendra Das’s sister, in a marriage party on the night of April 26 Das was allegedly beaten to death by seven upper caste men because he dared to sit with them during dinner. The cause of death was not certain after the post-mortem. Though, doctors from Nainbagh primary health care centre and Mahant Indiresh Hospital have mentioned epilepsy seizure in their medical reports.