Custodial death: Cong MP protests in Barabanki

A mob of locals led by Congress MP from Barabanki PL Punia staged a protest outside Kotwali police station in the district demanding arrest of the CO City and the SO of Jehangirabad police station.

CO Dharmendra Sachan and SO Anand Singh are named in a case of the alleged murder of an employee at a petrol pump Sushil Verma,who died in the police custody on Friday. Despite having received the postmortem report on Saturday evening,the Barabanki SP and the IO in the case feigned ignorance about the findings of the report.

Punia said: “The Barabanki SP has told me that the CO and the SO are absconding and the police are conducting raids to arrest them. We have given a deadline of three days for their arrests. Agitation will be intensified thereafter.”

Barabanki SP Kripa Shanker Singh,however,said: “They are not absconding. The decision to arrest them will be taken only after their role is substantiated in the investigation. The Kothi police station SO Mahendra Verma is assigned to investigate the case.”