Last month, a fact-finding team of human rights activists probed the death of a 20-year-old youth Sohail Khan in the custody of Narcotics Police in Madhya Pradesh and concluded that it was a planned murder.
However, more than a month after the tragic incident, no action has been taken by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) in the case. Citing the dormant status of the complaint, NCHRO Madhya Pradesh wrote to NHRC, urging them to initiate proceedings in the complaint so as to render justice to the victim who died in the custody of the Narcotics cell Mandsaur police.
The team was informed that during the post-mortem, serious injuries were found on Sohail’s entire body after he was brutally beaten up at the Narcotics Police Station. This is why Sohail succumbed to a heart attack on April 2, their investigation revealed.
The National Confederation of Human Rights Organizations (NCHRO) had filed a complaint in this regard, after the incident. They had also released a detailed fact-finding report of the incident and demanded a high-level judicial inquiry due to a severe violation of human rights in the entire case. The report had urged for immediate dismissal of convicted police officers and that they should be prosecuted for murder.
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Rushda Fathima Khan is the Staff Reporter for The Cognate.
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