Fatehgunj custodial death case: Court rejects CID plea to extend remand of six accused cops

A staff of the state Crime Investigation Division examines the crime scene close to Fathehgunj police station in Vadodara on Saturday. (Photograph via Bhupendra Rana)

A neighborhood court docket in Vadodara on Friday rejected the Crime Investigation Division’s (CID) plea for extension of remand of the six policemen, who’re accused in an alleged case of custodial loss of life in Fatehgunj police station in December 2019.

The six policemen had been despatched to judicial custody even because the investigators are nonetheless at nighttime in regards to the disposal of the frame of the sufferer, Nisar Shaikh (65), after the alleged crime used to be dedicated. The CID, officers stated that they’d now discover the choices of a narco take a look at in addition to lie detector take a look at of the accused with permissions from the court docket.

On Friday, because the 10-day police remand of the accused ended, the CID produced them in court docket and sought an extension of remand for 4 days. The CID has already performed a reconstruction of the occasions of December 10, 2019, within the Fatehgunj police station in addition to performed searches at the premises the place the six accused lived in Vadodara all over their accountability right here.

Then again, Superintendent of Police, CID, Girish Pandya stated that the accused remained “uncooperative” all over the investigations and maintained that the stated sufferer used to be let off after wondering in a case of tried robbery within the TP13 house of the town, from the place one of the crucial accused had adopted him to Fulwadi in Fatehgunj and apprehended him.

When requested in regards to the hurdle the probe has hit with the investigators but to recuperate the frame of the deceased to ascertain conclusively that it’s certainly a criminal offense of custodial killing, Pandya stated, “We will be able to talk over with the federal government pleader and senior police officers relating to your next step on this case. We will be able to transfer an utility within the court docket in quest of permission for mental checks in addition to narco research subsequent week.”

CID officers stated that investigations have published that the accused used 3 cars to do away with the frame, together with the automobile belonging to a head constable of the Fatehgunj police station, which used to be already seized via the Vadodara police in July this yr.

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