Maharashtra: Court orders probe in elderly man's death at police station in Thane

A 63yearold man died after collapsing at a police station in Kalyan a town in Maharashtras Thane district where his son was brought by the police for questioning following a combing operation an official saidThe incident occurred late Friday night at the Kolsewadi police station in Thane he saidThe police said that the man collapsed following a seizure attack and the incident was captured on the CCTV cameras installed at the police stationHowever the local court has ordered that an inquest panchnama of the incident and postmortem of the deceased be carried outAn inquest panchnama is conducted after a person dies as a result of crime or under suspicious circumstancesDuring an allout operation conducted last night the police picked up a 24yearold man who is a local resident and took him to Kolsewadi police station for inquiry His father Deepak Bhingardive 63 followed him to the police station to know why his son was brought there Deputy Commissioner of Police Zone III Kalyan Sachin Gunjal said in a releaseWhile the police were interrogating the man his father videographed it on his mobile phone As he was arguing with the police he was made to sit behind the station house officers block at the police station he saidHowever there he suffered a seizure attack and collapsed He was rushed to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead he addedThe entire sequence of events was recorded on CCTV cameras installed at the police station he saidThe police station personnel themselves informed the Criminal Investigation Department CID Their officials arrived at the police station Gunjal said adding that the CCTV footage will be handed over to the probe agencyLater the Chief Judicial Magistrate ordered the Judicial Magistrate First Class JMFC to arrange the inquest panchnama and postmortem reports of the deceased he saidAlso Read Mumbai Man makes fake bomb blast threat call to police held from PalgharThe process of inquest panchnama and postmortem will be videographed the official saidA case of accidental death has been registered at Kolsewadi police station he saidAnother son of the deceased accused the police of beating his father to deathI had gone to the police station with my father But the personnel there were not cooperating My father was taking a video of my brother in the lockup Police snatched the mobile phone from my father and slapped him They beat him in the lockup as well he allegedMeanwhile Nationalist Congress Party MLA Jitendra Awhad tweeted the deceased was an officerbearer of his party and that he was beaten to death by the police A rashtravadi congress office bearer Deepak Bingardive after being beaten in police chowky for no no crime died in the chowky FIR should be registered all those who were present and those who brought him Please do not not try to hush up the matter Awhad said in a tweetHe also tagged Thane city police and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis who holds the Home portfolio in the stateThe NCP MLA also tweeted a video of the scene outside the hospital where the post mortem and other legal formalities will be conducted In the video a police official can be seen explaining the formalities set to take place to the kin of the deceasedRefuting Awhad the Kalyan unit president of NCP Jagannath Shinde told reporters Bhingardive was not connected to the partyNCP chief spokesperson Mahesh Tapase said some family member of Bhingardive was an officebearer of the partyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever