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(Trigger Warning: This piece contains details about dead body).
A judicial magistrate court in Uttarakhand has ordered the Haridwar police to register a First Information Report (FIR) against the six policemen, ten months after the death of a gym trainer, Wasim Qureshi.
In its order passed on Wednesday, 2 July, chief judicial magistrate Avinash Kumar Shrivastav of Haridwar court noted that the death appeared to be murder, prima facie.
“From the application submitted by the applicant, the matter appears to be murder prima facie, which is a cognizable offence. Furthermore, the opposition parties in this case are government employees and public servants. Therefore, the investigation report received under section 175 (4) BNSS also leads to the conclusion that in this case, a proper investigation needs to be conducted by registering a First Information Report against the opposite parties, because sufficient evidence can be collected only through investigation,” noted the judgment, a copy of which accessed by The Quint.