Three Gujarat cops booked for ‘beating man to death in custody’, absconding

THREE HEAD constables of Mundra police station in Kutch district had been on Wednesday booked for allegedly illegally confining a person and beating him to demise after detaining him as a suspect in a home break-in case. The accused policemen went underground after a case was filed towards them.
Meanwhile, two residents of Samghogha claimed that they too had been picked up in the identical theft case and overwhelmed up severely by police. The duo was admitted to a hospital in Bhuj city for remedy on Wednesday.
Vijay Gadhvi, president of Akhil Kutch Charan Sabha, an organisation of Gadhvi neighborhood in Kutch district, mentioned the relations of the deceased refused to say the physique till the three constables had been arrested. He demanded an investigation into the function of the police station officer of Mundra in addition to the three accused.
Superintendent of Police, Kutch (west), Saurabh Singh mentioned a case of homicide has been registered towards three head constables. “We have registered the FIR as per complaint filed by the relative of the victim… We have registered a case of murder against the three head constables and sent the body to Jamnagar for post-mortem,” Singh mentioned. “The constables are absconding. But we shall take strictest action against the guilty,” Singh added.

According to an FIR registered at Mundra police station Wednesday, Arjan Gadhvi, a resident of Samaghogh village in Mundra taluka, was taken to a authorities hospital in Mundra Tuesday night the place medical doctors pronounced him lifeless. After leaders of the Gadhvi neighborhood alleged that Arjan was overwhelmed to demise and filed a grievance within the matter, Mundra police booked Shaktisinh Gohil, Ashok Kannad and Jaydevsinh Jhala.
In his grievance, Devraj Gadhvi, a distant cousin of the 27-year-old sufferer, acknowledged that policemen connected to the Mundra police station had known as Arjan on January 12 night, asking him to go to Pragpar strategy highway to gather a parcel. When Arjan’s elder brother Hari went to the police station on January 13, he was informed that police had taken his brother away for investigation in a case of theft, the FIR quotes Devraj, an advocate, as saying.
Devraj alleged that he, Hari and Vijaysinh Jadeja of Samaghogh village went to the police station on January 16 to search for Arjan. “We found Shaktisinh Gohil sitting alone in an office… Arjan was seated on the floor. Shaktisinh told us to ask Arjan if he had committed any theft or not…Arjan told us that he had not committed any theft but Shaktisinh Gohil, Ashok Kannad and Jaydevsinh Jhala had brutally beaten him up and had even given him electric shock. He said that they had even pushed petrol-soaked pieces of cloth in his rectum,” Devraj is quoted within the FIR as having acknowledged in his grievance.
Devraj claimed Arjan additionally confirmed them his swollen toes and mentioned, “I (Arjan) have reached my limit. I am unable to even walk”, the FIR states.
When the advocate enquired with Gohil if that they had arrested Arjan or received his remand, the latter informed him that he can be launched within the night. However, on Tuesday night, fellow advocate Kailashdan Gadhvi knowledgeable Devraj that Arjan died in custody.