All 3 women who consumed poison during police raid in Baghpat die, cops booked

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All 3 women who consumed poison during police raid in Baghpat die, cops booked

Saturday, 28 May 2022 | PNS | Lucknow

A case of culpable homicide was finally registered against the cops of Baghpat police after all the three women – a mother and her two daughters -- who consumed poison during a police raid on their house died.

The beat sub-inspector has been placed under suspension and a special investigation team (SIT) has been formed to probe the incident.

The police allegedly misbehaved with them following which they tried to commit suicide. The local superintendent of police, however, gave a clean chit to the officials claiming that the local villagers were also accompanying the police party during the raid. He also said that if any complaint was filed in this regard, he would get the incident probed afresh.

Reports confirmed that the woman and her two daughters consumed poison last Tuesday in the presence of police personnel in their house in Baghpat after the cops allegedly misbehaved with them.

While Geeta, the mother, and one of her daughters Preeti, died while being treated in a hospital in Meerut on Thursday, the other daughter, Swati, died on Wednesday.

Geeta's husband, Mahak Singh, has lodged an FIR under Section 306 (abetment to suicide) of the Indian Penal Code against Chhaprauli police station incharge Naresh Pal. Also named in the FIR are a man called Kantilal and his two sons, who had formerly filed a complaint against Singh's son Prince and are alleged to have accompanied the police team to Singh's residence when the said incident took place.

On May 3, an FIR was lodged against 24-year-old Prince under Section 366 (kidnapping, abduction and inducing woman to compel her marriage) of the Indian Penal Code, after Prince and Kantilal's 22-year-old daughter reportedly went missing together.

Kantilal's family is Dalit and Singh is an OBC of blacksmith caste. Last Tuesday night, the Chhaprauli police raided Prince's home but nobody opened the door. Thereafter, police made their way into the house through the roof of their neighbours and started to look for the accused. However, only Prince's mother and sisters were at home.

During the course of all this and amid alleged torture by the police, the woman and her daughters allegedly consumed poison. Following this, they were rushed to Chhaprauli's community health centre and subsequently, in a serious condition, to Meerut's Subharti Hospital.

Mahak Singh has said that he will end his life if no action is taken. The family was also refusing to perform the last rites until a case was registered against the station incharge and others.

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