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Bhopal, Oct 12 (IANS) Acting swiftly due to viral CCTV evidence and growing public outrage, Bhopal authorities arrested constables Santosh Bamania and Saurabh Arya for lynching 22-year-old B.Tech student Udit Gayaki.
In a horrific display of alleged police misconduct, 22-year-old engineering student Udit Gayaki, brother-in-law of Balaghat Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Chetan Adlak, was brutally beaten to death by two constables in Bhopal’s Indrapuri area late on Thursday night.
The incident, captured in CCTV footage, has now gone viral, sparking widespread outrage over custodial violence and corruption within the Madhya Pradesh Police.
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The duo, who were earlier suspended after the footage surfaced, now face stringent charges of murder under sections 103(1), 115(2) and 3(5) of the Indian Judicial Code, including murder with common intention and voluntarily causing grievous hurt.
As the investigation intensifies with the testimony of witnesses and digital forensics, he is to appear in the court on Sunday through a special demand.
Briefing reporters about the successes of the investigation, Zone-2 Deputy Commissioner Vivek Singh revealed, “As per the investigation by ASI (Assistant Sub-Inspector) Ajay Vajpayee, Udit and his friends were sitting in a red car in Indrapuri when two patrolling policemen reached there. In the CCTV camera footage, constable Saurabh Arya is seen hitting Udit on the leg with a baton. Him.”
The initial autopsy confirmed death from “traumatic hemorrhagic pancreatitis as a result of blunt trauma”, underscoring the lethality of the attack with multiple “tram track” injuries from the stick blows.
The ACP-led investigation is examining call detail records and eyewitness accounts to reveal the complete brutality.
According to eyewitness accounts of Udit’s friends, the group was returning from a casual party when constables patrolling near C-Sector, Indrapuri, under Piplani police station jurisdiction, stopped their vehicle.
The constables reportedly removed Udit’s shirt and hit him repeatedly with sticks against the wall, causing serious internal injuries. Udit, a final year B.Tech student at Technocrats Institute of Technology (TIT) College in Bhopal, was taken to AIIMS, Bhopal by his friends, but he died on the way or on arrival, with doctors declaring him dead on the spot.
The preliminary post-mortem examination report revealed that the cause of death was hemorrhage in the pancreas, caused by blunt force trauma to the abdomen as well as 16 external injuries on her body. The footage, in which one constable restrains Udit while another hits him repeatedly with a stick, has been described as “horrific” by netizens and activists alike.
–IANS
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