Uttarakhand High Court directs to issue notice to six policemen and two doctors
The High Court has issued notices to six policemen and two doctors and directed them to file their reply in the case of death in police custody in Tehri Garhwal.
The court has also put a stay on the order of Tehri District Judge Yogesh Kumar Gupta in this case, in which the instructions of Chief Judicial Magistrate Vinod Kumar Burman to issue summons for the crime of culpable homicide and destruction of evidence in the country have been cancelled. Was.
The court also directed the state government to file an affidavit. The next hearing of the case will be on December 21. The case was heard under the understanding of the single bench of Judge Justice Rakesh Thapliyal. Swaroop Singh, 38, a resident of Ghansali, died under suspicious circumstances on May 21, 2011, when he was taken into police custody after an argument with a woman.
After this, his brother Mor Singh had filed an FIR against six policemen and three doctors accusing them of murder and tampering with evidence.
The court also said
The court believes that the post-mortem report was tampered with to benefit the police. Even the post-mortem was not videographed, which is necessary in case of suspicious custodial death.
