The Uttar Pradesh government, on the orders of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has paid Rs.5 lakh to the family of a boy – Durgesh (12) – who was beaten to death and later hanged by a police sub-inspector and four cops.
The boy was picked up for an interrogation into the theft case in Data Ganj of Badayun district of the State. The U.P. government had also informed the Commission that a criminal case had been registered and charge-sheet filed in the court against the police personnel and the annual increment for the sub-inspector had been withheld for a year.
The incident happened on January 20, 2008, and the Commission enquired into the case following a complaint lodged by Human Rights Observer Editor R.H. Bansal.
Durgesh was not only badly beaten up by the cops and hanged afterwards, his house was also ransacked by the police personnel, the complainant alleged.
