The special investigating team (SIT) probing the Bopal custodial death case on Thursday arrested three policemen deployed with the special operations group (SOG) and local crime branch (LCB), for the alleged killing of a 35-year-old man from Naroda, who was a suspect in a Rs 2.50 crore gold theft case.
The 35-year-old victim, Surubha Jhala, was a driver with a courier company. He was picked up by LCB and SOG personnel on October 14 and died the next day, states the FIR which books the cops for murder.
The SIT chief, deputy superintendent of police (DySP) K T Kamaria, said that all the three accused were nabbed after they gave statements to the probe team.
“We arrested SOG PSI N A Rayma, SOG head constable Mukeshsinh Daulatsinh and Sadiq Usman, a constable with LCB, in the custodial death case. Only these three persons were involved in the offence and we nabbed them after they made statements confessing the crime to us on Thursday,” said Kamaria.
About the five police personnel mentioned in the FIR, Kamaria said Jhala’s family members had misunderstood that there were five persons involved while only these three cops were involved in the crime.
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