A station house officer was suspended after a businessman died due to alleged torture by the local police in Balrampur district, on Sunday night. A probe has been also ordered to initiate further departmental proceedings if the charges are found to be true. Senior officers were also awaiting the outcome of post-mortem examination before taking any legal action against the accused.
According to reports, one Mohammad Ibrahim (49) had been picked up from his home and detained at local Kotwali police station on Sundayevening. Station House Officer of Kotwali police station, Srinath, claimed that the accused was detained in connection with a property dispute case and that they would release him after interrogation. However, Ibrahim, later turned unconscious and shifted to near-by hospital where doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival.
The news of death of Ibrahim went like a wild fire and within no time hundred of local residents along with family members gathered outside Kotwali police station and staged a protest. They alleged that the victim was manhandled and tortured in police custody following which he died in custody. later on the complaint of the victim’s family, Superintendent of Police, Balrampur, Sonia Singh suspended SHO and also ordered to get a case registered in the matter.
Meanwhile, Azamgarh, from where Samajwadi Party supremo won the Parliament elections recently, was rocked with a sensational triple murder when unidentified miscreants brutally battered three temple priest to death and looted the booty late on Sunday night. According to reports, some unknown miscreants entered inside Durga Hanuman Temple at Kalu Singpura locality of Tarwa in Azamgarh late on Sunday night. They brutally attacked the temple priest, 50-year-old Anil Sharma, along with his 70-year-old colleague, Satya Narain, and Deepak Singh. The miscreants later looted cash and other valuables kept in the temple and escaped.
later some local resident who heard cries of one of the victim Deepak Singh, rushed to temple and found that both Anil and Satya were already dead. They took Deepak to nearby District Hospital from where he was referred for Medical College in Varanasi, but he too died on way and was declared `brought dead’ by the doctors soon after reaching Varanasi. A case has been registered in this regard and senior police officers were making all out efforts to trace out the criminals involved in the crime. The bodies were also sent for post-mortem examination. Further investigations are on in the matter.