MP Government pays interim relief to custodial death victim
New Delhi, 7 May 2004
Following the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission, the Government of Madhya Pradesh has paid an 'interim relief of rupees twenty thousand to the wife of deceased under-trial Chigga. Chigga died on 16 October 2000 while in police custody at Sirsi Police Station in Guna District, Madhya Pradsh. The death of Chigga while in custody was reported to the Commission by the Superintendent of Police, Guna.
The magisterial enquiry report submitted to the Commission stated that the cause of Chigga's death was due to serious and fatal injuries he had suffered in a scuffle with some other persons over the issue of a piece of land and in which the police had no role. It said that the police had taken the injured Chigga to the Civil hospital in Guna but he had escaped from the hospital, as he did not have money for food and medicines. Accepting the report's findings, the Commission observed that negligence of the concerned public servants in not providing medical treatment during police custody was the immediate and proximate cause of death. It stated that the State's obligation to provide proper and regular medical treatment to a person under its custody is absolute and admits no exception. Hence the Commission recommended that immediate interim relief should be granted to the heirs of the deceased. It also asked the State Government to look into the affairs of the poor working conditions at the Civil hospital in Guna and take remedial measures.
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Following the recommendation of the National Human Rights Commission, the Government of Madhya Pradesh has paid an 'interim relief of rupees twenty thousand to the wife of deceased under-trial Chigga. Chigga died on 16 October 2000 while in police custody at Sirsi Police Station in Guna District, Madhya Pradsh. The death of Chigga while in custody was reported to the Commission by the Superintendent of Police, Guna.
The magisterial enquiry report submitted to the Commission stated that the cause of Chigga's death was due to serious and fatal injuries he had suffered in a scuffle with some other persons over the issue of a piece of land and in which the police had no role. It said that the police had taken the injured Chigga to the Civil hospital in Guna but he had escaped from the hospital, as he did not have money for food and medicines. Accepting the report's findings, the Commission observed that negligence of the concerned public servants in not providing medical treatment during police custody was the immediate and proximate cause of death. It stated that the State's obligation to provide proper and regular medical treatment to a person under its custody is absolute and admits no exception. Hence the Commission recommended that immediate interim relief should be granted to the heirs of the deceased. It also asked the State Government to look into the affairs of the poor working conditions at the Civil hospital in Guna and take remedial measures.
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