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  • Samajwadi Party forms panel to probe ‘custodial’ death of youth in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party on Saturday constituted an 11-member panel to investigate into the alleged custodial death of a youth in the Jaunpur’s Buxa area.

    The team was constituted on the directions of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, party spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary said.

    The team led by the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly, Ram Govind Chaudhary, will visit Jaunpur on Sunday to meet the family Kishan Yadav, alias Pujari, who died in police custody, Chaudhary said.

    Kishan Yadav was taken into custody on Thursday night for questioning in a loot case and had died under mysterious circumstances.

    The incident had triggered protests by locals who blocked a national highway and indulged in stone pelting, leading to injuries to several policemen.

    Superintendent of Police Raj Karan Nayyar had ordered the suspension of three policemen, including the in-charge of the Buxa police station, and announced a magisterial inquiry into the incident.

    Later, the Buxa SHO, SOG in-charge and other policemen were booked for murder.

  • Death of youth in police custody triggers protest in Uttar Pradesh’s Jaunpur

    By PTI
    JAUNPUR: The death of a man allegedly in police custody in the Buxa area here triggered protests by locals who blocked a national highway and indulged in stone pelting, leading to injuries to several policemen.

    Superintendent of Police Raj Karan Nayyar has ordered the suspension of three policemen, including the in-charge of the Buxa police station, and ordered a magisterial inquiry into the death of Kishan Yadav, alias Pujari, who was taken into custody for questioning in a loot case.

    Later, the Buxa SHO, SOG in-charge and other policemen were booked for murder, after which the body was sent for a post-mortem, SP (City) Sanjay Kumar said.

    A crime branch team had brought four to five youths for questioning in the loot case to the Buxa police station on Thursday.

    Yadav, 25, who was among them, was taken ill during the night and was rushed to the community health centre.

    From there he was referred to the district hospital but he died during treatment, Nayyar said.

    Evidence of loot had been found against Yadav and he was taken into custody for questioning, the SP said.

    As soon as the news of the death of Yadav spread, his family and locals gathered on the Lucknow-Varanasi national highway and staged a protest.

    They also indulged in brick batting, resulting in injuries to Circle Officer (City) Jitendra Dubey and other policemen, Nayyar said.

    Police and Provincial Armed Constabulary personnel have been deployed in large numbers in the area to maintain law and order, he said.

    The family alleged that the youth died after being severely beaten up in custody.