Morung Express News
Dimapur | August 4
The Dimapur police on Thursday stated that an ‘internal inquiry’ has been initiated to investigate the death of Ramesh Kumar Yadav on August 3 while in police custody. Maintaining that it would be premature to comment on the allegation of custodial death, the Dimapur police PRO said that the cause of death can be ascertained only after the post-mortem report comes out. In tandem with the ‘internal inquiry’ a ‘magisterial inquiry’ was also in progress, the PRO said. The PRO though did not deny that the victim died while in police custody.
Stating that the Dimapur police will be making an official statement on August 5, the PRO said that the report of the internal inquiry should not take long to come out.
According to the PRO, the victim along with two others were arrested in an arms related case and brought to the police station at around 2:00 am on August 3. He was reportedly discovered to be not breathing at around 4:00 am and taken to the hospital where he was declared dead.
