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Haryana Dalit boy's post-mortem report out; 2 cops booked

News Agencies | Updated on: 13 February 2017, 6:38 IST

The 15-year-old Dalit boy, Govind, had died of hanging, the postmortem report shows. The incident occurred a day after the teenager was taken to police station for being accused of pigeon theft.

He was later found dead near his house under suspicious circumstances.

Two assistant sub-inspectors were today booked in connection with the boy's death allegedly in police custody in Devipura village of Sonipat district even as his family claimed that police had demanded money for his release.

ASIs Subash and Anil have been booked under various sections of IPC, Deputy Superintendent of Police Venod Kumar said, with elaborating.

The two policemen have been suspended. However, no arrests have been made so far.

Some members of the 'Gadia lohar' community had on Wednesday approached the Sonipat police charging the boy with the theft of a pigeon and demanded appropriate action against him, police said.

Govind's family, which staged a protest, here alleged that police took the boy to police station on the pretext of complaint of theft. They alleged police officials demanded Rs 15,000 to release him.

When the family members went to police station with money, they were told that he had been released and he might have committed suicide.

The family members alleged that the boy was brutally beaten.

Police claimed there was a mark around his neck.

Doctors, who conducted the postmortem, said that there was no injury mark on the body.

"He died due to hanging," one of the doctors said.

The incident comes close on the heels of two Dalit children being burnt alive at Sunped village in Faridabad.

In the victim's native Devipura village, his elder brother Gautam said that "police demanded money for the release of my brother".

"We found the body in our uncle's house adjacent to ours in the village the next day after police picked him (the boy) up on Wednesday," Gautam said.

Gautam demanded a compensation of Rs 10 lakh from the government.

Meanwhile, National Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Commission member Ishwar Singh met SP Abhsikek Garg and members of the deceased boy's family at the village.

Police said that the situation is under control.

-PTI

First published: 23 October 2015, 1:56 IST