IN HIS three-room home, Chand Mia factors to a cot with a plastic unfold. His 22-year-old son Altaf would lie down on it each time he was house, and play video games on his telephone. Children within the neighborhood cherished spending time with Altaf and would usually crowd the room, taking turns to play the video games.
“He barely stepped out of the house once he was done with work. He loved spending time with the children and they would visit him every day. To thinks that a person like him would kidnap someone and then kill himself by hanging from a tap, I still cannot believe it,” says Chand Mia.
On November 9 final yr, Mohammad Altaf, a daily-wage employee, was discovered lifeless in a police station in Kasganj district. The police claimed he hanged himself utilizing the drawstring of the hood of his jacket after tying it to a bathroom’s water faucet, three ft above floor.
Altaf had been introduced in for questioning in reference to the disappearance of a lady throughout which he died by suicide, the police mentioned.
Three days in the past, Allahabad High Court directed the police to exhume Altaf’s physique and ship it to AIIMS, New Delhi, for a second autopsy. The path got here on a petition moved by Altaf’s household, which was not glad with the findings of the primary autopsy.
The water pipe from which police mentioned Altaf hanged self.
Listing the matter after 4 weeks, the court docket mentioned it was passing the order “as a result of it’s the case of the petitioner based mostly upon pictures introduced on document, whereby the deceased, Altaf, is proven to have hung himself from a water pipe, which was put in solely three ft above the bottom of the bathroom”.
For the household, the court docket order has come as a type of vindication. “There are days my hands and legs would not stop shaking. I had to be taken to hospital because my blood pressure shot up. Losing your young son is not easy. And the fight for justice is even more difficult. But the court heard us poor people,” says Chand Mia.
Altaf was the eldest of three siblings and helped the household by engaged on every day wage jobs. While it has been three months since his dying, his household is but to return to phrases with it. The picture of Altaf mendacity immobile within the Kotwali Police Station rest room haunts Chand Mia.
“He weighed nearly 60 kg and was tall…. There are so many things that don’t add up. If the second post-mortem reveals any other information, it will prove that his suicide was a cover-up,” he alleges.
The physique will probably be exhumed within the coming days and despatched to AIIMS, officers mentioned. The whole train of the handover must be accomplished in 10 days, based on the court docket.
“The exhumation will be carried out as per the court orders. The body will be dug out and sent to AIIMS. An inquiry into the incident is already underway. If the second post-mortem reveals any new information, it will be made part of the investigation,” mentioned Kasganj SP Botre Rohan Pramod.
Currently, a judicial inquiry is underway, and seven of the 36 witnesses have been examined. Two out of the remaining witnesses will probably be examined on Thursday.
The police have maintained that the Altaf was concerned within the kidnapping of a 19-year-old girl and that he died by suicide. He was booked for abduction whereas a separate FIR was filed towards unknown accused in reference to the dying. Five police officers, together with SHO of the Kotwali Police Station, stay suspended.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
