Important Cases: 1. Police custody case; Relief of Rs. 2 lakh paid by UP Government to kin
At the insistence of the Commission, the Uttar Pradesh Government has paid an interim compensation of Rs. 2 lakh to the next of kin of an undertrial prisoner Jagdish, son of Ramprasad, who died while in police custody in 1997.
The Superintendent of Prisons, Lucknow, intimated his death to the Commission. It was stated that Jagdish, who was lodged in the district jail, Lucknow had died on 17 January 1997 at 10.45 p.m. at the Medical College Hospital, Lucknow where he had been taken for treatment.
The Superintendent of Prisons, Lucknow, intimated his death to the Commission. It was stated that Jagdish, who was lodged in the district jail, Lucknow had died on 17 January 1997 at 10.45 p.m. at the Medical College Hospital, Lucknow where he had been taken for treatment.