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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Delhi<br />
personnel and other passengers allegedly<br />
kicked and punched the deceased all over<br />
the body due to which he suffered severe<br />
internal injuries and collapsed on the spot.<br />
He was rushed to hospital where he was<br />
declared dead. The army personnel were<br />
arrested. 12<br />
On 22 June 2004, an undertrial of<br />
Tihar Jail, Nirmal Kumar, 40, of Nangal<br />
Raya village in West Delhi allegedly<br />
committed suicide using his shoestrings to<br />
hang himself from the grill in Tihar jail no.<br />
4. The jail officials claimed that Kumar<br />
was depressed as he expected to be<br />
awarded death penalty <strong>for</strong> the crime. He<br />
had been undergoing trial <strong>for</strong> the past<br />
seven years <strong>for</strong> raping and killing an 11year-old<br />
girl. 13<br />
On the evening of 5 July 2004, a<br />
patrol party of the Sabzi Mandi police<br />
station spotted one Promad hailing from<br />
Sitapuri in Uttar Pradesh moving<br />
suspiciously at the Nehru Park under Sabzi<br />
Mandi police station in North district of<br />
Delhi. The police arrested him under<br />
section 109 Criminal Procedure Code and<br />
lodged him inside the police station lock<br />
up at 9 pm. According to the police,<br />
following black out of the area due to load<br />
shedding there was no light in the police<br />
station <strong>for</strong> about one and half hour from<br />
9.30 pm to 11 pm. At 10 pm, SHO Safdar<br />
Ali saw the body of Pramod hanging by<br />
his shirt from the grill gate of the lock up.<br />
Constable Umesh Rai, who was on sentry<br />
duty at that time, had gone to see the duty<br />
officer to enquire about restoration of<br />
electricity. Pramod was rushed to Hindu<br />
54<br />
Rao Hospital where he was declared<br />
brought dead. 14<br />
On the night of 16 August 2004,<br />
Deepak Yadav, an alleged pickpocket died<br />
under mysterious circumstances at Ram<br />
Monohar Lohia hospital. While the<br />
relatives of the victim alleged police had<br />
beaten the deceased to death, the police<br />
claimed he was a pickpocket and died<br />
when he jumped out from the moving bus<br />
in an attempt to flee on 12 August 2004.<br />
He was then admitted to the Ram Manohar<br />
Lohia Hospital where he died. 15<br />
At around 9.30 a.m on 11 May 2004, a<br />
32-year-old rickshaw-puller Nandu, who<br />
had entered Old Delhi railway station<br />
without a plat<strong>for</strong>m ticket, was allegedly<br />
beaten to death by an assistant subinspector<br />
of the Railway Protection Force<br />
(RPF) B.K. Singh and two other RPF men<br />
on duty. The victim was murderously<br />
assaulted <strong>for</strong> his unauthorized entry in the<br />
railway station and using the toilet. 16<br />
III. Arbitrary arrest, detention and<br />
torture<br />
Arbitrary arrest and torture were<br />
widely <strong>report</strong>ed in Delhi. The victims<br />
were tortured either to extract confessions,<br />
obtain bribes, settle personal disputes or<br />
sometimes due to lawless law<br />
en<strong>for</strong>cement.<br />
At around 2 p.m. on 15 February<br />
2004, a businessman Nand Gopal<br />
Aggarwal of Shastri Nagar was allegedly<br />
beaten up <strong>for</strong> the failure to pay bribes at<br />
Dhaula Kuan. He was allegedly taken to<br />
the Chanakyapuri Police Station and