BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Human Rights Commission in India has pulled up the state police for unlawful entry into the house of one Bhaskar Behera of Athagarh on the night of June 14 2007 night leading to his death.
Directing the state government to initiate departmental proceedings against the erring police officials, the commission has awarded a compensation of rupees one lakh to the parents of the deceased.
Asked by the Orissa High Court to enquire into the matter, the commission on Thursday made public its findings observing that Bhaskar’s death was not due to police assault as alleged.
“There was no evidence of assault by police on bhaskar”, the commission said. Bhaskar died due to aspiration of stomach contents into his air pipe as he was shocked and frightened at the sight of police at his doorstep late in the night, the commission said basing its observation on medical evidence.
The victim’s mother had petitoned the High Court alleging that her son was killed due to police excess. She had also sought a CBI probe into the death of her son alleging that even as murder cases were registerd against the erring policemen at the local police station, the culprits would manage to escape.
The High Court, however, had asked the state human rights panel to make an enquiry into the allegations made by Bhaskar’s mother.
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