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The State Human Rights Commission has suo motu registered a lawsuit into the decease of a remand captive from Viyyur jailhouse who died portion undergoing attraction astatine the Government Medical College Hospital. Commission subordinate V. Geetha has directed the caput of the jailhouse section and the Thrissur City Police Commissioner to behaviour a elaborate enquiry and taxable a study wrong 15 days. The lawsuit volition beryllium taken up during the Commission’s sitting successful Thrissur aft the study is received.
The decease of a 33-year-old remand captive astatine Viyyur Central Jail has triggered allegations of custodial torture, adjacent arsenic a preliminary post-mortem study attributes the origin of decease to interior bleeding successful the caput linked to a pre-existing condition. The deceased, Resh Babu, a autochthonal of Nanmikkara, died astatine the Thrissur Government Medical College Hospital connected Wednesday evening portion undergoing treatment. He had been arrested connected May 16 successful transportation with a robbery lawsuit on with 2 others and was remanded to judicial custody the pursuing day.
According to jailhouse authorities, Resh Babu vomited and fainted wrong the jailhouse connected May 26, pursuing which helium was archetypal admitted to the territory infirmary and aboriginal shifted to the aesculapian assemblage infirmary owed to his deteriorating condition.
Kin lodges plaint
However, the household has alleged that the decease was a effect of custodial battle and has lodged a ailment with the City Police Commissioner. They claimed that determination were disposable injuries connected his assemblage and that helium had swelling connected his lips erstwhile they saw him successful the hospital. The household besides questioned the determination to lodge a idiosyncratic with intelligence wellness challenges successful a regular jail, alleging superior lapses connected the portion of the police.
Responding to the allegations, officials said the preliminary findings of the post-mortem introspection bespeak that the decease was not owed to carnal battle but caused by interior bleeding successful head. The incidental has sparked protests, with DYFI activists staging a march to the East Police Station demanding accountability.
Meanwhile, DCC president Joseph Tajet criticised the protests, stating that attempts were being made to represent the incidental arsenic a custodial decease contempt aesculapian findings suggesting otherwise. He said the post-mortem study and statements from co-accused indicated that Resh Babu had not been assaulted.
