Dalit groups here have demanded action in a case of alleged custodial death of a 15-year-old boy at a police post near Chandwaji in Jaipur district last week. No action has been taken against any of the policemen named in the first information report registered in connection with the incident.
In a report, the Centre for Dalit Rights (CDR) said here on Friday that the minor Dalit boy, Ajay Kumar Raigar, was tortured in custody after he met senior officers to complain about his repeated detention following any criminal activity in the region. The police post’s staff forcibly took away the boy from his house on October 13 morning.
Though the policemen got an injured Ajay admitted to a private hospital on the Jaipur-Delhi national highway later in the day while claiming that he fell from their motorcycle and was hit by a speeding truck, the CDR has disputed the theory. “We have eyewitness accounts of his torture,” CDR State coordinator Chanda Lal Bairwa said.
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