Custodial death case: Retd police inspector gets 7 years RI

Posted Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 21:14
Updated Wednesday, January 24, 2007 at 23:48

New Delhi: A retired Delhi Police inspector was sentenced to seven years’ rigorous imprisonment (RI) by a city court for ruthlessly beating a person in police custody, to death.

"It was only accused H P Singh who caused fatal injuries to the deceased and it could be presumed from a person of ordinary prudence like accused Singh that he knew about such injuries are likely to cause death of a person," said Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar.

Coming down heavily on the coduct of Singh as a public officer, the court said he not only had no expiation but also tried to implicate the landlords of the deceased. Such conduct on the part of a public officer is highly condemnable.

The quantum of punishment in cases involving public officers should be commensurate with the status of the offender, by imposing greater penalty on a person from whom higher standards were expected, it observed while sentencing 61-year-old Singh.

Singh was convicted under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC.

The court also imposed on him a fine of Rs one lakh, out of which Rs 50,000 shall to be given to the successors of victim Subhash Chand.

The four accused landlords of the victim were also convicted for causing hurt to Chand.

Chand had died on February 3, 1990, owing to spinal fracture after Singh beat him up on January 23 at Geeta Colony Police Station where he had gone to lodge an FIR against his landlords following a dispute.

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