TGHRC takes serious note of Kodad custodial death; Seeks Report from Govt
The Commission directed the Principal Secretary to Government, Home department to submit a detailed report, while fixing the matter for further consideration on January 12
Hyderabad: Telangana Human Rights Commission (TGHRC) has taken serious cognizance of allegations of illegal detention, custodial torture, and the custodial death of Karla Rajesh, as raised by his mother Karla Lalitha and social activist Manda Krishna Madiga.
The Commission noted allegations that the deceased was unlawfully detained by Chilkur and Kodad rural police, subjected to third-degree methods, falsely implicated, denied access to family, and later succumbed to severe injuries after being shifted from sub-jail to government hospitals.
Considering the gravity of the human rights violations alleged, the Commission clubbed the cases with an earlier complaint on the same issue and directed the Principal Secretary to Government, Home department to submit a detailed report, while fixing the matter for further consideration on January 12.
In her complaint lodged on Monday, Rajesh’s mother Lalitha said that her son was illegally kept in police custody for six days from November 4 to 9 and was physically tortured using third degree methods and thereafter implicated him in a false criminal case before remanding to judicial custody on November 10.
She said that despite several requests, the Chilkur police did not allow her to see her son Rajesh, who was found with severe injuries when he was produced before the magistrate concerned. Before producing her son before the magistrate, he was administered with an injection on his right hand in the court premises and was then produced before the magistrate.
He was later remanded to judicial custody. She further stated that she received a phone call from the staff of Huzurnagar Sub-Jail on November 10 informing that her son's health was not good and when she went to the Sub-Jail, she found her son in serious medical condition.
On November 14, her son was shifted to District Government Hospital in Suryapet. As his condition was serious, he was shifted to Gandhi Hospital in Secunderabad, where he succumbed to injuries after two days.
Lalitha alleged that the Sub-Inspector of Police, Chilkur police station, the Circle Inspector of Police, Kodad rural police station and certain police constables of both police stations, used third degree methods on her son.
As these police personnel were responsible for his death, she requested the Commission to direct the concerned to register a ST, ST Atrocity case against them and to conduct re-post mortem examination on the body apart from directing the concerned to preserve the material evidence in this case to take action against the Deputy Superintendent of Police, Kodad and Superintendent of Police concerned for their alleged negligence in the matter.
