After coming under public pressure, Gujarat police filed an FIR against ‘unknown’ policemen for allegedly torturing a 14-year-old Dalit boy who committed suicide at his home on Saturday.
Dhruv Parmar, a class IX student was severely beaten up by policemen over no known offence according to eyewitnesses.
Police have refused to apply the Atrocity Act. JCP (crime branch) J K Bhatt said the FIR has been filed for abetment to suicide and under subsection 15 of the Juvenile Act.Times of India
Many locals gathered at the police station on Sunday after the police refused to file an FIR. They then pelted stones at the police station, while “others thronged the post-mortem room at Civil Hospital and threatened not to cremate the boy’s body until the guilty were brought to book”, reported the Times of India.
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