Lucknow: Five policemen, including a sub-inspector and four constables, have been suspended for not registering an FIR in the case of a person who tried to self-immolate in public. Sultanpur District on Friday.
The complainant had accused the two youths of assault, but the police did not take any action.
Superintendent of Police, Sultanpur, Vipin Mishra told TOI that the victim has been identified as sarvesh gautamThe 22-year-old had tried to commit self-immolation in Kadipur police station area claiming that the police did not act on his complaint. He is undergoing treatment at Dr. SPM Civil Hospital, Lucknow.
Mishra further said that on July 23, a victim named Sarvesh was thrashed by Avlesh Yadav, who is also his brother. Sarvesh’s mother remarried after the death of Avalesh’s father and now she lives with him.
“Feeling isolated at home and humiliated in public, he went to Sub-Inspector Shashikant Patel to file a complaint, who reportedly turned it down,” Mishra said.
After this Awalesh publicly started mocking Sarvesh. Due to this Sarvesh went into depression and on Wednesday he tried to commit suicide by sprinkling petrol at his house. Locals took Sarvesh to the district hospital.
Later, SP Sultanpur set up an inquiry and suspended him on Friday. SI Shashikant Patel with constables babban yadavPradeep Kumar, Akhilesh Yadav and Arpit Kumar, who were present on Sarvesh’s day, were publicly thrashed.
The SP also said that a CO rank officer is also being investigated.
The complainant had accused the two youths of assault, but the police did not take any action.
Superintendent of Police, Sultanpur, Vipin Mishra told TOI that the victim has been identified as sarvesh gautamThe 22-year-old had tried to commit self-immolation in Kadipur police station area claiming that the police did not act on his complaint. He is undergoing treatment at Dr. SPM Civil Hospital, Lucknow.
Mishra further said that on July 23, a victim named Sarvesh was thrashed by Avlesh Yadav, who is also his brother. Sarvesh’s mother remarried after the death of Avalesh’s father and now she lives with him.
“Feeling isolated at home and humiliated in public, he went to Sub-Inspector Shashikant Patel to file a complaint, who reportedly turned it down,” Mishra said.
After this Awalesh publicly started mocking Sarvesh. Due to this Sarvesh went into depression and on Wednesday he tried to commit suicide by sprinkling petrol at his house. Locals took Sarvesh to the district hospital.
Later, SP Sultanpur set up an inquiry and suspended him on Friday. SI Shashikant Patel with constables babban yadavPradeep Kumar, Akhilesh Yadav and Arpit Kumar, who were present on Sarvesh’s day, were publicly thrashed.
The SP also said that a CO rank officer is also being investigated.
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