The death of a 42-year-old villager, who was found hanging in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund district on Sunday, has sparked a row.
The deceased, a resident of the Lafin Kalan village, left a note behind alleging that he was ending his life because he was tortured and extorted by the police after having been falsely implicated in a theft case. The note had been recovered, the police said. The family members of the deceased individual have also corroborated the allegations of custodial torture while maintaining that the deceased was innocent. The “theft” in question was reported in a neighbouring village, which falls under the jurisdiction of Fingeshwar police station in Gariaband district on November 20. However, no FIR was registered in this regard at the time.
The Gariaband police on Tuesday formed a committee under the district’s Additional Superintendent of Police to look into the matter while also sending a head constable on district lines. The Mahasamund Police, meanwhile, is also probing the incident.
