Custodial death of a murder accused kicked up a controversy in Saharanpur district on Saturday. A magisterial probe has been ordered in the death of the murder accused who died at police lock-up at Rampur police station on Saturday night.
Police said that the accused was identified as laxman Prasad (55) of Nandpur village under Rampur police station. He was allegedly involved in a murder of a man of his village and was brought at the police station for interrogation. He was put behind the police lock-up on Saturday night. His condition began to deteriorate following which he was rushed to district hospital where he was declared brought dead.
Though the police denied of third degree torture in the name of interrogation, the family of the accused alleged that the police was forcing him to own up his crime and in the process laxman was bashed up in blue and black. They said laxman could not bear the police torture and died of it.
The incident caused the villagers to flow in rage and they demanded justice from the higher authorities. The officials ordered a magisterial probe of the incident.