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Lucknow
custodial death: Supreme Court favours independent probe
Friday July 08, 2011 02:53:16 PM,
IANS
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Another
custodial death in Uttar Pradesh
A young woman
was found hanging in a lock-up within the heavily guarded district
police lines in Kanpur Friday, days after the mysterious death of
a doctor inside the toilet of the Lucknow district jail.
Poonam, who was accused of murdering her husband, was found
hanging
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Friday said it was in favour of an independent investigation
into the custodial death of Lucknow deputy chief medical officer
Y.S. Sachan. The court, however, adjourned the hearing till July
14.
While hearing a petition by his widow Malti Sachan, seeking a
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, an apex court bench
of Justice H.S. Bedi and Justice Gyan Sudha Misra said: "Both of
us are in favour of the incident being investigated by an
independent agency."
In the course of the brief hearing, Justice Bedi asked senior
counsel U.U. Lalit why not a similar matter pending before the
Allahabad High Court be transferred to the apex court.
Justice Bedi said this when Lalit, appearing for the Uttar Pradesh
government, suggested that the petition by Malti Sachan be sent to
the high court.
The Supreme Court will hear the matter July 14. The High Court
will hear it July 12.
Sachan, the prime accused in chief medical officer B.P. Singh's
murder, was June 22 found dead in mysterious circumstances in the
washroom of Lucknow district jail hospital where he was under
treatment.
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