‘Institutional Failure’ CBI Probe Ordered into Missing Videos in Alleged Custodial Death of Disabled Man: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court examined a Public Interest Litigation concerning the custodial death of a disabled man inside a police lockup in Mainpuri, Uttar Pradesh. The case relates to Nahar Singh, who allegedly died on 9 May 2009 while in police custody at Dannahar Police Station. The police had claimed that the death was a suicide, stating that he hanged himself inside the lockup urinal area using a belt. Petition…
