‘Youth’s death in lock-up a suicide’

The postmortem report of Sambhu Das (23),who was found hanging from the ventilator grille at the Alipore police station lock-up on Sunday,states that the youth had committed suicide. DC (Headquarters) Jawed Shamim said,“His lungs showed he was suffering from tuberculosis and examination of stomach contents showed no presence of harmful substances.”

Death of Das had evoked strong protests with mob going on a rampage at Alipore police station. The government had transferred the officer-in-charge of Alipore PS and a sub-inspector and a constable were suspended on charge of negligence.

The police have also initiated a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder on the basis of a complaint lodged by victim’s family.