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Patel agitation: 9 policemen booked in alleged custodial death of Patel youth
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After the Gujarat High Court ordered a CID probe, nine policemen including two inspectors and a sub-inspector have been booked for the alleged custodial death of a 32-year-old man detained during Patel quota agitation.
After the Gujarat High Court ordered a CID probe, nine policemen including two inspectors and a sub-inspector have been booked for the alleged custodial death of a 32-year-old man detained during Patel quota agitation.
Hardik Patel, who is leading the agitation by Patel community for reservation under OBC quota, on Saturday said he is likely to attend funeral of the victim, Swetang Patel, on Sunday and warned that government will be held responsible “if anything happens”.
Assistant Commissioner of Police K D Pandya said police inspectors P D Parmar and R R Vasava of Bapunagar were among nine policemen booked in the Swetang Patel death case.
“We had late last night registered an FIR in Swetang Patel’s death case against two police inspectors of Bapunagar, one D-staff PSI and six other policemen of D-staff for causing death,” Pandya told reporters.
D-staff or detection staff is responsible for conducting investigations in cases filed with a police station. However, advocate for the victim’s family B M Mangukia claimed that the FIR did not have names of all the police officials responsible for the alleged custodial death.
“We had demanded that all those responsible be named, but they (police) did not register an FIR as per our demand and left out many high ranking officials, including ACP. We do not want to make lower ranked policemen a scapegoat in the case,” Mangukia told reporters.
“We sat in the police station for about five hours to register an FIR…. This is non-compliance of the high court order and a contempt of court as well,” Mangukia added. Police allegedly forcibly took Swetang away on August 25. A plea was moved by Prabhaben Patel, Swetang’s mother, which said the police allegedly beat him and ultimately he succumbed to the injuries.
The Gujarat HC had ordered a second autopsy of the body, which stated that he had died due to severe head injury. Observing that prima facie it was a case of homicide, the HC on Friday directed the administration to file an FIR and also ordered a CID probe.
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