The Uttar Pradesh Government, on the orders of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has paid Rs. 5 lakh to the family of a boy, Durgesh aged 12 years, who was beaten to death and later on hanged by a police sub-inspector and four cops.
The boy was picked up for an interrogation in a theft case in Data Ganj of Badayun District of the state. The U.P government had also informed the Commission that a criminal case had been registered and a charge-sheet was filed in the court against the police personnel and the annual increment for the sub-inspector had been withheld for a year.
The incident took place on January 20, 2008, and the Commission enquired into the matter following a complaint lodged by Human Rights Observer Editor R.H. Bansal.
Durgesh was not only badly beaten up and later on hanged by the cops, but also his house was ransacked by the police personnel, the complainant alleged.
News reported by AR for Newsvision newspaper
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