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12-11-2021, 02:26 PM
11 Nov 2021
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Police on Wednesday said 22-year-old Mohammad Altaf hanged himself after he went to the washroom in a police station at Kasganj district in Uttar Pradesh – India’s most populous state governed by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Police say he asked to go to the washroom during the interrogation, where he hanged himself using his jacket’s string which he tied to a water tap.
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The Times of India newspaper on Thursday reported that Altaf was about 5ft 6 inches (167cm) tall and the water pipe was less than three feet (91.4cm) from the ground.
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Five police officers have been suspended for negligence in the case
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“The Uttar Pradesh police is known to suspend people and later promote them and send them to other jurisdictions, so that really means nothing. Just suspending the local cops is not enough. There is a chain of command responsibility here so it is the senior police officers in charge of the district who should be punished.”
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Earlier this year, India’s home ministry said in the Indian parliament that 348 people died in police custody and 5,221 died in judicial custody in the last three years.
In Uttar Pradesh, 23 people have died in police custody and 1,295 in judicial custody in the same period.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/1...ial-murder
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Police on Wednesday said 22-year-old Mohammad Altaf hanged himself after he went to the washroom in a police station at Kasganj district in Uttar Pradesh – India’s most populous state governed by the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Police say he asked to go to the washroom during the interrogation, where he hanged himself using his jacket’s string which he tied to a water tap.
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The Times of India newspaper on Thursday reported that Altaf was about 5ft 6 inches (167cm) tall and the water pipe was less than three feet (91.4cm) from the ground.
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Five police officers have been suspended for negligence in the case
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“The Uttar Pradesh police is known to suspend people and later promote them and send them to other jurisdictions, so that really means nothing. Just suspending the local cops is not enough. There is a chain of command responsibility here so it is the senior police officers in charge of the district who should be punished.”
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Earlier this year, India’s home ministry said in the Indian parliament that 348 people died in police custody and 5,221 died in judicial custody in the last three years.
In Uttar Pradesh, 23 people have died in police custody and 1,295 in judicial custody in the same period.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/1...ial-murder
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