Dead tell no tales: Man becomes minor
Vijay Upadhyay
Etah. The Etah police passed a 14-year-old minor's dead body as that of a 30-year-old man to save the station officer of Jethra. After torturing a detainee to death he escaped with the dead body.
Moharpal Singh alias Pappu, 30, died on early Sunday morning after being tortured in the Jethra police station. This incident had resulted in the outbreak of gruesome violence in the town and the Jethra police station had been gutted by the mob.
The Station Officer has now been suspended to prevent further unrest. But he is still at large. But under the pressure to recover the body of the deceased Moharpal, the Etah police fished out a badly decomposed body of a 14-year-old minor from a nearby river-stream. They secretly got the postmortem done on Wednesday morning to prove it the body of Moharpal Singh. The doctor who conducted the postmortem refused to confirm the age of the body in the postmortem report terming it as "unconfirmed".
Later, talking to The Pioneer, the medical officer confirmed that "by the look of it, it appeared to be the body of a young chap".
When asked why he did not mention this fact in the postmortem report, he said that Moharpal's death had become a high-profile issue and for the fear of his life, he could not write the actual age.
The family members of Moharpal Singh too accepted the dead body as that of Moharpal Singh under pressure from the police and performed the funeral of an ill-fated teenager, who had been apparently abducted and dumped in the river.
When the Etah Superintendent of Police Vijay Singh Meena was asked if the police was sure that the body was that of Moharpal Singh, he resorted to hide behind the fact that the family of the deceased had accepted the body.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)
For any queries or feedback - univijay@rediffmail.com 9412282297, 9319108697
Etah. The Etah police passed a 14-year-old minor's dead body as that of a 30-year-old man to save the station officer of Jethra. After torturing a detainee to death he escaped with the dead body.
Moharpal Singh alias Pappu, 30, died on early Sunday morning after being tortured in the Jethra police station. This incident had resulted in the outbreak of gruesome violence in the town and the Jethra police station had been gutted by the mob.
The Station Officer has now been suspended to prevent further unrest. But he is still at large. But under the pressure to recover the body of the deceased Moharpal, the Etah police fished out a badly decomposed body of a 14-year-old minor from a nearby river-stream. They secretly got the postmortem done on Wednesday morning to prove it the body of Moharpal Singh. The doctor who conducted the postmortem refused to confirm the age of the body in the postmortem report terming it as "unconfirmed".
Later, talking to The Pioneer, the medical officer confirmed that "by the look of it, it appeared to be the body of a young chap".
When asked why he did not mention this fact in the postmortem report, he said that Moharpal's death had become a high-profile issue and for the fear of his life, he could not write the actual age.
The family members of Moharpal Singh too accepted the dead body as that of Moharpal Singh under pressure from the police and performed the funeral of an ill-fated teenager, who had been apparently abducted and dumped in the river.
When the Etah Superintendent of Police Vijay Singh Meena was asked if the police was sure that the body was that of Moharpal Singh, he resorted to hide behind the fact that the family of the deceased had accepted the body.
(UNITED NEWS NETWORK)
For any queries or feedback - univijay@rediffmail.com 9412282297, 9319108697
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