Briefing his experience of being in police custody as a student activists, the former Chief Minister of Tripura also the opposition leader Manik Sarkar Monday had a smell of conspiracy into the alleged custodial death of 38 years old Sushanta Ghosh in West Agartala police station. Mr. Sarkar said, "There have been a confusion over the death of this man and also with the role of police in duty during the time of incident inside the police station."
He said, "During my visit to the family members of the deceased man recently the deceased sister has shown me a video which shows injury mark in the lower part of the deceased man and some clothes were stuck on his the deceased mouth." He said, "Despite this be the fact as shown in the video, the Chief Minister have been saying that no injury mark have been found on the deceased body except one such mark in the neck."
"This creates some confusion with the death of 38 years old man which police have been reporting it as unnatural death," adding to this Mr. Sarkar ruled out the magisterial enquiry into the case ordered by the Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb and said, "How could the enquiry be done without removing the concerned police officer on duty whereas other two policemen were removed in the name of their negligence in duty."
Manik Sarkar however also expressed concern over the CCTV footage of the police station where the 38 years old man committed suicide as reported by the police. He said, "If the man had committed suicide than from where did he got the material to do so? Who helped him on this?"
Manik Sarkar said, "Despite we have demanded for judicial enquiry into the two seperate custodial deaths in Udaipur and Agartala, the government has turned down and ordered for magisterial probe in both the cases."
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