HYDERABAD: A fact-finding team of Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee today demanded the culprits behind the death of State Armed Reserve constable P Muralinath and custodial death of fraudster Janardhan be booked under the SC/ST Atrocities Act and Section 302 (murder), and the culprits be arrested.
The victims in both the cases were SCs, they said.
The CLMC team inquired into the suspicious death of Muralinath, who was sent to work at Octopus chief Vivek Dube’s house at Noida, near Delhi, and also into the death of Janardhan, who died in custody at the LB Nagar police recently. On the custodial death, the CLMC team alleged that Janardhan was kept in illegal detention and tortured for three days on charges of theft.
They claimed that Janardhan was picked up by plainclothesmen on August 2. Two days later, Janardhan died due to severe beating by the police, they alleged.
In Muralinath’s case, the CLMC team said that the constable was forced to obey the orders of his superiors and go to Noida as he was expecting a promotion. Apart from the work for which he was sent, he was also asked to wash clothes, clean utensils and toilets, it alleged.
The team demanded a judicial enquiry into the `lock-up’ death of Janardhan and a CBI inquiry into Muralinath’s death.