The death of a youth at Edakkad earlier this month is allegedly due to injuries he suffered in police custody at the Edakkad police station limits here.
The family of A. Unais, Areechankiyil House at Edakkad, who had died on May 2, released an undelivered letter he supposedly wrote to the Superintendent of Police here informing the District Police Chief of the torture he had suffered in the station. He was found dead at his house.
According to his relatives, Unais, autorickshaw driver, had been called to the police station on February 21 on a complaint from his father-in-law that he hurled stone at the latter’s house. He had been warned and allowed to go. He had again been taken into custody two days later on another complaint of torching a scooter.
Unais in his letter said that he was brutally beaten up at the station by the police personnel led by a sub-inspector.
The relatives of Unais said that he had been admitted to the Thalassery Co-operative Hospital in the early hours of February 24. The letter addressed to the SP had been allegedly written at the hospital and handed over to his friends for its delivery.
His brother Nawas told the media that the undelivered letter had been found inside a book by the relatives later. He had been discharged from the hospital and died at his house two months later.
Mystery in death
Nawas also lodged a complaint to the police stating that there was mystery in the death of his brother.
District Congress Committee (DCC) will organise a march to the Edakkad police station on May 17 to protest against the alleged custodial torture of Unais, DCC president Satheeshan Pacheni said at a press conference here on Tuesday.
Though the hospital report recorded Unais’s disclosure of custodial assault, the police had not probed it as a medico-legal case. He said that the party wanted senior officers to investigate the incident.
