Salman Khan’s home removal: Abohar lady petitions the high court to have the CBI look into her son’s “custodial” death

About two weeks after gunfire outside actor Salman Khan’s Bandra home, the mother of one of the accused filed a motion in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, requesting that the CBI look into the circumstances surrounding his death while in custody.

Reeta Devi of Abohar claimed that her son Anuj Kumar “tragically passed away while in police custody under circumstances that gave rise to significant concerns regarding the nature and cause of death” in her suit against the Union of India, Punjab, and other defendants.

Tuesday is the planned preliminary hearing for the petition filed via attorney Davinder Singh Khurana before Justice Vinod S. Bhardwaj’s bench.

Khurana argued: “There is a chance that the police were involved since the petitioner’s kid passed away while in their care and a number of prominent figures made statements before to their passing. The same police officers who were in charge of Anuj’s death performed the previous post-mortem in Mumbai, where they concluded that it was a suicide. Therefore, it is essential and in the interest of justice to re-conduct the post-mortem in order to ensure a proper and fair inquiry.

Providing some background information, Khurana said that the Maharashtra Police had detained Anuj, one of the culprits in the fire incident outside Salman Khan’s residence, on April 23. On April 29, a Mumbai Special MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act) Court placed him under police arrest till May 8.

However, on May 1, the petitioner’s kid passed away while in the Mumbai police’s care. According to the police account, Anuj used a bedsheet to hang himself inside the lockup’s bathroom. After being taken to the GT Hospital, which is maintained by the state, he was pronounced dead while receiving care.

The basic right to a fair and impartial inquiry into any death, “particularly the one that occurs under suspicious circumstances while in the custody of law enforcement agencies,” was expanded by Khurana to include the right to life and personal freedom as guaranteed by Article 21 of the Constitution.

Her argument

Anuj Kumar “tragically passed away while in police custody under circumstances that gave rise to significant concerns regarding the nature and cause of death,” according to Reeta Devi of Abohar.