Dalit student claims falsely implicated by Noida Police, assaulted by cops
Noida(PTI): A 22-year-old law student in Uttar Pradesh has alleged that he was assaulted by police in Greater Noida and falsely implicated in an extortion case in which he was jailed last year.
The second-year BA LLB student, who belongs to the Dalit community, also alleged he was forced to drink urine by policemen and that they thrashed him inside the Sector Beta 2 police station in Gautam Buddh Nagar district’s Greater Noida area.
The claims are being investigated, police said. When approached for a response, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Greater Noida) Ashok Kumar, who is probing the matter, told PTI that it is “sub-judice and I cannot comment on it”.
The student claimed that he had tipped off the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police about a sex racket being run from a spa and massage centre. Its owner, a woman, was arrested and sent to jail from the Sector 49 police station in Noida in June 2021, he said.
“The woman and her husband, who was my friend, implicated me in a false case of extortion. I was picked up by police on November 18 last year from outside the SNG Plaza in Greater Noida and brutally assaulted by them at the Beta 2 police station,” the student, who hails from the state’s Aligarh district, alleged.
“I was held in a room in the upper deck of the building where I was thrashed to the extent that I started bleeding. I urged them that I had undergone a fistula operation… Later, when I pleaded for water to drink, I was given urine in a pot from the bathroom and forced to drink it. I resisted and pushed the pot away, with some of the urine spilling on me,” he told PTI requesting anonymity.
He alleged that he was picked up by police around 1.30 pm but officially showed in custody after 5 pm.
The student said he got bail after spending less than a fortnight in jail, but has since then been trying to get the “false FIR” against him quashed.
He claimed that he has met several officers with his request but his case is being delayed. “I want the matter to be probed impartially. If I have done anything wrong, then charge me. I have proof and evidence to prove my case. I will seek justice,” the law student said, alleging police inaction.
A couple of short video clips of the student purportedly being assaulted surfaced on social media this week.
Responding to them on Twitter, the Gautam Buddh Nagar Police Commissionerate tweeted: “The incident is one year old. The authenticity of the videos is being ascertained and other angles related to the incident are being probed by the additional deputy commissioner of police (Greater Noida).”
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Road crash in UP leaves 10 dead
Lakhimpur Kheri (UP) (PTI): Ten people were killed when a van collided head-on with a truck on the Sisaiya-Lakhimpur national highway on Monday, police said.
The van was going to Sisaiya from Lakhimpur when the accident took place between Unchgaon and Bharehta villages.
Circle Officer of Dhaurahra, Shamsher Bahadur Singh, said all nine passengers travelling in the van and the driver were killed.
District Magistrate of Lakhimpur Kheri Anjani Kumar Singh told reporters that the van collided with a truck coming from the opposite direction, leading to nine casualties on the spot, while one succumbed to injuries at the district hospital.
Circle Officer, Dhaurahra, Shamsher Bahadur Singh told PTI, "Efforts are on to establish the identity of other deceased persons."
The seven of the deceased have been identified as Jaideep Singh (25), Pawan (23), Sohan (21), Ram Goyal (42), Sahajram (35), Pappu (18), all residents of Bahraich district and Adnan Khan (15), a resident of Lakhimpur Kheri district, police said.
Condoling the loss of lives in the accident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in a post on X, said, "The loss of life in the unfortunate road accident in Lakhimpur Kheri district is deeply distressing and heart-wrenching. My condolences are with the bereaved families."
"I have directed the local administration to provide prompt and adequate assistance to the injured and the victims. I pray to Lord Shri Ram to grant the departed souls a place at His divine feet and to bestow a speedy recovery upon the injured," Adityanath said on X.
Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak too condoled the loss of lives in the accident.
"The loss of lives resulting from the road accident in Lakhimpur Kheri district is deeply tragic and heart-wrenching. My deepest condolences go out to the bereaved families," Maurya said.
