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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | In Gujarat, custodial death of Dalit man shines light on cases closed before court remands -Abhishek Dey

In Gujarat, custodial death of Dalit man shines light on cases closed before court remands -Abhishek Dey

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published Published on Aug 26, 2018   modified Modified on Aug 26, 2018
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Between 2007 and 2016, in 80.9% of reported cases, individuals in police custody in the state died before being produced in court, according to government data.

On Sunday, a Dalit man died while in police custody on the outskirts of Dhanera town in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district. Lubaram Uttamaram, 25, a migrant labourer from Rajasthan’s Barmer district, was picked up by the police from a check post on the border of the two states in connection with a case of vehicle theft. He was later taken to the community health centre in Dhanera, where doctors declared him dead. While the police said that Uttamaram committed suicide by hanging himself with a rope that he found in the police check post, groups of local residents and Dalit activists have alleged that the police beat him to death.

Scroll.in looked at government data from 2007 to 2016 on the incidence of deaths in police custody, and the numbers pertaining to Gujarat were grim. This data is published annually by the National Crime Records Bureau.

The parameters relevant to Uttamaram’s case include death in police custody where remand is not granted by a court (Uttamaram died before he was taken to a police station, let alone being produced before court), custodial deaths that are passed off as instances of suicide, and incidents of custodial deaths that result in First Information Reports against police officials, and convictions if any.

What the data says

Of all the reported instances of deaths in police custody in the state over the 10-year period studied, the individual died before being produced in court in 80.9% of the cases. Gujarat leads the charts in this parameter. The data showed that Gujarat is closely followed by Maharashtra, with 80.6%.

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Scroll.in, 22 August, 2018, https://scroll.in/article/891335/in-gujarat-custodial-death-of-dalit-man-shines-light-on-cases-closed-before-court-remands


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