DIG-led committee formed to probe custodial death of youth in Sindhuli
Kathmandu. A committee led by a DIG has been formed to investigate the death of Krishna BK, who was held in custody at the Area Police Office in Khurkot, Sindhuli. On Friday, IGP Dan Bahadur Karki formed a 5-member committee led by DIG Dinesh Kumar Acharya, with a mandate to submit an investigation report within 7 days. 23-year-old Krishna BK was a local of Jumlidanda, Sunkoshi Rural Municipality Ward Number-3, Sindhuli.
He was arrested on Baishakh 3 by a team from the Satdobato Police Circle. Krishna was apprehended during an investigation into the disappearance of a 17-year-old girl from Khotang, who had gone missing from Sanagaun, Mahalaxmi Municipality-6, Lalitpur.
The girl's brother had filed a missing person report at the Satdobato police station on Chaitra 30, 2082. An officer from the Lalitpur District Police Range stated that police found the girl with Krishna BK on Baishakh 3. The girl had been missing since Chaitra 28. The youth and the girl had stayed together in Lalitpur for 3 days before traveling to Jumlidanda, Sindhuli, on Baishakh 1.
They were located through technical investigation following the missing person report filed by the girl's brother.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the girl told officers they had engaged in physical relations. An officer from the Lalitpur District Police Range stated that because the girl was a minor and her brother had filed a rape complaint, Krishna was sent to Sindhuli. He said, 'Since a formal complaint was filed and the incident site was in Sunkoshi, Sindhuli, the local police team came and took the accused into custody.'
As the youth's home falls under the jurisdiction of the Khurkot Area Police Office, the Khurkot police were investigating the case after registering the brother's complaint. According to police headquarters, the accused was being investigated under a rape charge with a 7-day remand granted by the Sindhuli District Court. Police claim that during the investigation, at 5:59 PM on Baishakh 7, Krishna hanged himself in the detention center's restroom using his own shirt. The letter forming the investigation committee states, 'He hanged himself in the restroom of the detention cell using his black shirt, was found injured, and died during treatment.'
The Khurkot Area Police Office stated that after finding him hanging from the restroom window railing, they immediately cut the noose and sent him first to Sunkoshi Community Hospital and then to the District Hospital in Sindhuli Madi. Police officers claim that doctors declared Krishna dead at 8:15 PM that same night.
However, Member of Parliament Khagendra Sunar has claimed that Krishna was beaten and had bruises all over his body. Sunar has publicly stated, 'Police officers who torture Dalit youths for inter-caste relationships must be suspended and prosecuted.'
Rastriya Swatantra Party MPs Sunar, Rima Bishwokarma, and Ashish Gajurel, elected from Sindhuli-2, have reached Sindhuli following the Dalit youth's death. Previously, on Baishakh 8, the Bagmati Province Police Office had formed an investigation committee led by SP Mohan Khan. The youth's body is currently kept at the Sindhuli District Hospital.
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