Dalit youth wanted to do inter-caste love marriage, police harassed him so much that he hanged himself

POSTED ON FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The family of the deceased alleges that due to his desire for an inter-caste love marriage with a upper caste girl, the police harassed the young man so much that he had to give up his life.

Edited By: Khushbu Rawal

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): A special court has ordered registration of an FIR in the almost a year-old case of suicide of a 21-year-old Dalit youth due to police harassment in Indore. The family of the deceased alleges that due to his desire for an inter-caste love marriage with a upper caste girl, the police harassed the young man so much that he had to give up his life. Special Judge Manoj Kumar Tiwari has ordered the city’s Scheduled Caste Welfare Police Station to register an FIR in the suicide case of Akash Badiya (21) on February 16, 2022 and present the final report before the court after investigation.

Akash’s family lawyer Neeraj Kumar Soni said that the court gave this order recently while accepting the complaint filed by his client. According to Soni, it has been said in the complaint that B. com. Akash, a student of B.Sc., and the girl were in love with each other and had left the house on February 9, 2022, due to their desire to get married. According to the complaint, sub-inspector Vikas Sharma, claiming to be the girl’s uncle, reached Akash’s house on February 9, 2022, and threatened the family members of the youth using casteist words.

The youth’s family alleges that on February 10, 2022, Sharma called Akash to the Chandan Nagar police station and beat him up by taking him behind an ambulance parked in the police station premises. According to the complaint, the sub-inspector also threatened the young man that if he marries the girl, he will implicate him in rape and drug cases and spend the rest of his life in jail. Officials told that Akash had committed suicide by hanging himself in his house on 16 February 2022.

Akash’s family lawyer Soni said that before committing suicide, the youth had written in a note written in Roman script in English on his mobile – “Sub Inspector Vikas Sharma and TI of Chandan Nagar police station…these two people are responsible for my death”. . He told that after the youth’s suicide, his relatives had requested to register a case against these police officers on the basis of this suicide note, but this was not done and Sub-Inspector Sharma and the then in-charge of Chandan Nagar police station, Dilip Puri, were arrested. “Clean chit” was given in the departmental inquiry by the police.

Courtesy: India TV

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