A dalit man committed suicide after being fed up with torture of Delhigate police in Aligarh district of Uttar Pradesh. The relative created ruckus in the police station. Orders have been given for magisterial inquiry in this matter.
In Govind Nagar of Dehligate police station area, a young dalit man committed suicide after being agitated by the police torture and a woman named Gulabo. In protest against this, the people of Khatik society created a ruckus by placing the dead body inside the police station. They staged a sit-in protest at the Dehligate intersection. It is alleged that the young man had appealed to the police for help after his wife went missing, but on the contrary, he was tortured.
Regarding this, leaders of BJP, BSP and Aam Aadmi hailing from Bengal. She came to Ravi’s house several times with the police. After this the police used to behave in a rude manner. Many times Ravi was locked up in the police station and Gulabo demanded money. Tired of this harassment, Ravi hanged himself on Monday night. After this some people reached the police station in the night itself. Then the police sent the body for post-mortem after assuring action.
The body reached home after post-mortem at around 1.30 pm on Tuesday. When no action was taken, at around 2o’clock, people blocked the road by putting dead body outside the Lal Masjid area on Khair Road. Still no hearing took place. On this, around 4o’clock in the evening, people created ruckus in front of the police station.
By keeping the dead body in the police station, a commotion started. Slogans were raised against the police administration. Dozens of people reached here including BJP Metropolitan President Vivek Saraswat, former Mayor Shakuntala Bharti, BJP leader Sanju Bajaj etc.
The demand of the people was that action should be taken by registering a case against the policemen. CO first Ashok Kumar Singh, CO II Shivpratap Singh, CO Iglas Raghavendra Singh arrived with the force of police stations like Kotwali Nagar, Rorawar, Sasnigate, Gandhi Park etc. But, the people were not ready to move. Rather, they entered the police station and raised slogans fiercely.
At around eight o’clock in the night, people ended the dharna on the consent of the inspector and the inspector to be on the line. Devi alleges that Ravi had given an application for disappearance on June 1, but no hearing was held.