In the latest development in the case of a 21-year-old girl’s death during a police raid in Uttar Pradesh’s Chandauli, the deceased’s sister has alleged that police personnel beat her sister to death and then hanged her to make it look like a suicide.
Nisha Yadav’s younger sister Gunja Yadav told Aaj Tak/India Today that the police barged into their house on Sunday and thrashed them without providing any reason or warrant. Despite their protests, police officers of both sexes beat them, she alleged.
“We protested. My sister ran inside and tried to bolt the door, but they caught her and thrashed her. They bashed me up as well. My sister’s screams for help suddenly stopped,” Gunja said.
When she finally went inside the room her elder sister had run into, she saw Nisha hanging from the ceiling fan. The noose was tied loosely around Nisha’s neck and her feet were still brushing against the floor, Gunja said.
She untied the noose, made with a saree, around her sister’s neck and checked her breathing and pulse. But by then Nisha was already dead.
WHAT POST MORTEM FOUND
Contrary to Gunja and her family’s claims, Nisha’s post mortem states that there was no internal or external injury to her body. It further states that since the cause of death is not clear, a viscera sample has been preserved for testing.
However, two marks were found on the girl’s body, a scratch in the front of the throat and minor bruising 0.5 cm below the left jaw.
Nisha Yadav was found dead after allegedly being thrashed by the police, who had gone to her home in Manrajpur village to arrest her father Kanhaiya Yadav, a history-sheeter.
Based on a complaint filed by Nisha’s family, an
