NHRC notice to U.P. Government on the death of PWD engineer Manoj Gupta

New Delhi the 26th December 2008

The NHRC taking suo-motu cognizance of newspaper reports has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh for their comments on the death of executive engineer of PWD Manoj Gupta allegedly caused due to beating by the ruling BSP, MLA Shekhar Tewari in Auraiya in the wee hours of Wednesday, the 24th December 2008. The reports alleged that MLA had been demanding 50 Lakh rupees from Gupta. It is also mentioned that the killing was planned and brutal manner by the said MLA alongwith some of his goons who entered Gupta house around 3.00 AM posing as CID staff. They locked up Gupta's wife inside the bathroom and attacked Manoj Gupta with stick and rods which eventually led to his death. The Commission has asked the Chief Secretary and the DGP, of Uttar Pradesh to submit the report on the incident within two weeks