Gurgaon: A man whose brother died in police custody in Haryana alleged yesterday that a senior police officer first threatened him with death and then offered Rs3m to keep mum.
Naresh alias Bhola recorded the complaint before judicial magistrate Ashok Mann here along with his brother Keshav and sister Rajesh Kumari.
They had given their statements in the same court on November 17 — a day after their brother Sukhbir died — but recorded a statement Thursday too saying they were “mentally disturbed” earlier.
Bhola told IANS that an assistant commissioner of police stopped him near a toll barrier in Palwal district on November 18 when he was transporting the body of his brother.
“The officer threatened me with dire consequences... The officer wanted us to keep mum on the custodial death of my brother and wanted us to cremate the body without any delay,”
Bhola said.
The family refused as it wanted to protest against the custodial death. Later, the same officer offered the family Rs3m lakh for not pursuing the case, Bhola added. Joint Commissioner of Police Vivek Sharma told IANS that the case of custodial death has been handed over to the Crime Branch.
“A judicial inquiry was already on the way. We have asked them (victim’s family) to register their statements,” Sharma told
IANS.
The Crime Branch took Sukhbir and his brother Rakesh into custody on November 15 at Sohna, 26km from Gurgaon.
Sukhbir died the next day, apparently due to torture. The family was told about it on November 17. The first postmortem conducted in a government hospital at Sohna on November 18 stated that the body bore no sign of injuries. IANS
