Custodial death case: CID team arrives in Vadodara to recreate sequence of events

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

The state Crime Investigation Division (CID) on Saturday arrived in Vadodara at the side of the six suspended policemen from Vadodara, who’re accused in an alleged case of custodial demise in Fatehgunj police station in December 2019, and reconstructed the collection of occasions.

The CID has shaped a staff to scout the world round Fatehgunj police station for CCTV cameras that can have captured Babu Sheikh Nisar (65) strolling out of the police station or in its neighborhood after being “launched” as claimed by way of the six accused officials.

The six policemen who have been arrested on September 2, in keeping with the CID, have maintained that that they had set the sufferer unfastened after wondering him throughout the day. The CID has shaped a staff of officials who are actually on the lookout for CCTV cameras within the space that may lend clue as to if the claims of the accused officials are true. The six policemen are the then police inspector of Fatehgunj police station D B Gohil, police sub-inspector D M Rabari and Lok Rakshak Dal jawans Pankaj Mavjibhai, Yogendra Jilansinh, Rajiv Savjibhai and Hitesh Shambubhai.

CID Superintendent of Police Girish Pandya advised this newspaper, “The six policemen have maintained their declare that they allowed the sufferer to stroll unfastened after wondering him for the alleged robbery. They’ve mentioned that they had picked him up from the TP-13 space (in Chhani) in Vadodara for wondering in a case of robbery. On the other hand, there’s no considerable proof to turn that they let him cross. Even though they made a B Roll access within the station diary pointing out his unencumber, the station officer of that day has mentioned that Rabari didn’t quit any reproduction of the remark of the lacking sufferer, which is obligatory.”

“We have now just one CCTV pictures of the lacking sufferer on the bus prevent within the morning of December 10 when the person had arrived in Vadodara along with his son-in-law and thereafter each went one after the other to promote their items. If we discover any CCTV cameras that can have captured any symbol of him strolling out of Fatehgunj police station as claimed by way of the policemen, we can ship the cameras for forensic research to retrieve the pictures as cameras generally best retailer pictures as much as a month. Forensic science laboratory has tactics to retrieve previous information,” Pandya added.

The CID has despatched the onerous force of a pc of the Fatehgunj police station to the FSL to retrieve the comfortable reproduction of the criticism of robbery filed by way of Chhani resident Satish Thakkar that Rabari is claimed to have destroyed after Nisar’s demise. “They’d typed the criticism however by no means uploaded the FIR, in keeping with investigation so we’re seeking to retrieve the previous paperwork with lend a hand of FSL,” Pandya mentioned. The CID will habits searches within the properties of the six policemen on Sunday in addition to glance into the function of different officials who have been connected to the Fatehgunj police station at the day of the alleged crime. The six officials are within the custody of the CID till midday of September 11 and the CID is predicted to hunt an extension in their remand for the reason that the frame of the deceased is but to be recovered.

“Restoration of the frame after the reconstruction of the way they disposed of the frame is a an important a part of the probe. Since they’re claiming that they left him after wondering, now we have now not been ready to reconstruct the disposal of the frame. We can search an extension within the remand, if wanted,” Pandya mentioned. Nisar had reportedly long past lacking after he was once apprehended by way of the Fatehgunj police on suspicion of robbery.

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