NHRC asks UP govt to pay 300000 for custodial torture death

Mustan Sarulla Khan had been sent to Kanpur district jail in connection with a case on June 20,2005. He,later died on June 22.

On consideration of “material on record”,the Commision noted that at the time of lodging in Kanpur district jail,Khan was stated to have had three injuries on his body but the “inquest report shows that there was a series of injuries on his person.” The post-mortem report said Khan died of cardiac failure due to high temperature. But it was noted that some of the injuries found on his body were “on the palm and the sole of the foot besides on scrotum and his genitals,” it noted.

“Various records show that the undertrial might have died of custodial torture,” the Commission said.

NHRC took cognizance of the cases on the basis of an intimation made by the then Kanpur district jail superintendent in this regard.

In his intimation,Jail superintendent had said Khan was not feeling well on the day he was brought to the jail. He was first admitted to jail hospital for treatment. As his condition worsened on June 22,he was taken to U H M Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.