The Legal Investigation Division (CID) of the Karnataka police will examine the alleged custodial dying of a suspect detained in a drug peddling case in Belagavi, the police stated.
Basanagouda Iranna Patil, 45, a suspect in a ganja peddling case, was in police custody since Friday afternoon when he reportedly fell sick and needed to be rushed to a hospital the place he died round 8.15 pm. The Belagavi police stated that the suspect suffered a coronary heart assault whereas he was in police custody and died at VIMS hospital in Belagavi.
The suspect was picked up in reference to a ganja peddling case registered in August the place one suspect was arrested and is in judicial custody. Patil, the second accused within the case, was named by the primary accused and was discovered on Friday within the Belagavi Rural police limits, the police stated.
“When the suspect was being introduced for his interrogation on Friday afternoon, he complained of uneasiness and was taken to an area clinic the place he was declared to be wholesome to bear interrogation. He was delivered to the Belagavi Rural station. On the station, he complained of uneasiness once more and was taken to hospital the place he died in ICU round 8.15 pm,” Belagavi DCP (Regulation and Order) Ravindra Gadaddi stated.
The Belagavi police stated the household of the detained suspect had been knowledgeable concerning the detention and the switch of the suspect to a hospital previous to the dying. The household has filed a criticism relating to the dying in police custody and the case can be transferred to the CID, the Belagavi DCP stated.
In August this yr, the Belagavi Rural police registered a case beneath the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 in opposition to an undertrial prisoner within the Hindalga jail in Belagavi for the possession of 100 grams of ganja. The ganja was present in a pair of chappals that the prisoner was utilizing. Police launched a probe to search out the supply of the provision of the medication.