The National Commission for Scheduled Castes has despatched a discover to the Telangana Chief Secretary and Director General of Police in search of details about the loss of life of a Dalit girl in police custody.
A Mariyamma, a cook dinner at a pastor’s home in Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri district, had been taken into custody on June 18 together with two of her male kin for alleged theft of Rs 2 lakh from her employer.
The police say that she “all of sudden fell down on the ground and went unconscious”. She was first taken to a neighborhood hospital after which shifted to a authorities hospital the place she died.
The Scheduled Castes panel has additionally instructed the Deputy Commissioner and Superintendent of Police of the district to submit their “action-taken” report inside every week.
The police say that the kin “confessed” to finishing up the theft together with Mariyamma, with Rs 90,000 recovered from them.
According to info accessible with NCSC, the girl died within the lockup of Addagudur police station because of alleged police torture, PTI reported.
The girl was allegedly overwhelmed by the police within the presence of her daughter regardless of repeated requests, the fee stated citing experiences.
NCSC Chairman Vijay Sampla, on whose orders the discover was despatched, has cautioned the officers that if the action-taken report just isn’t acquired throughout the stipulated time, the panel would train its powers of the civil courts conferred on it underneath article 338 of the Constitution and subject a summons for private look earlier than the fee in Delhi.
— With PTI inputs
