PTI, NEW DELHI: The CBI has taken over probe into the alleged custodial death of a 16-year-old boy at the Katortal police post in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district in February.
The Uttarakhand High Court had directed the agency to investigate the case after the father of the teenager approached it with a complaint against police officials. According to the procedure, the CBI will initiate a probe based on the FIR registered by police in the connection with the case.
The then in-charge of the Katortal police post sub- inspector Praveen Singh, constable Balwant Singh and unidentified persons have been named in the FIR. The father of youth had alleged that on February 26, Praveen Singh had called them to the police post to question his son regarding an issue. He had claimed that on reaching the post, the policemen locked his son in a room alleging that he had eloped with the daughter of a Kazibagh resident.
