On Thursday, the Telangana High Court ordered a judicial probe into the custodial death of a dalit woman, Mariamma, at Addaguduru police station in the Rachakonda police commissionerate limits on June 18.
A bench comprising of Justice M S Ramachandra Rao and Justice T Vinod Kumar gave this direction while hearing a petition filed by People’s Union for Civil Liberties, Telanagana state unit, general secretary Jaya Vindhyala seeking a judicial probe, stern action against the errant policemen and Rs 5 crore compensation to be recovered from the officers who allegedly tortured Mariamma to death.
Alair judicial first class magistrate has been asked to inquire into the custodial death and furnish a report to the court in a sealed cover in a month.
Addaguduru police had taken Mariamma and her son along with their friend into custody to question them about a crime registered at the police station. Petitioner’s counsel P Shashi Kiran said police took them into custody on June 15 and tortured them for three days.
The bench directed the judicial registrar to inform the judicial magistrate of Alair to conduct the probe immediately. Recover the body from the burial ground, if necessary, to conduct a re-postmortem, it added. Advocate general BS Prasad contended that the Rachakonda police commissioner had already suspended some cops and they even ordered a probe by a revenue divisional officer (RDO), an executive magistrate.
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