A local court has directed Delhi police to ensure an independent probe into the death of a soldier due to burn injuries at his in-laws’ house.
The mother of Jitender Tomar, who was a sepoy in the Jat Regiment, had sought a probe into the unnatural death alleging it could be a result of troubled relationship with his wife and in-laws.
The court also pulled up the police for ‘shamelessly’ putting Tomar’s mother to the ‘ignominy of getting arrested’ in an FIR registered against her for allegedly subjecting her daughter-in-law to cruelty and criminal breach of trust and ‘thereby throttle her voice of dissent’.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma passed the order on an appeal filed by Tomar’s mother Sushila Devi. The court directed that ‘the matter be placed before the DCP concerned who shall ensure that the investigation is handed over to an independent agency to bring out the entire truth...’
The appeal was filed against an order of a magisterial court refusing to direct registration of FIR and probe Tomar’s death.
The mother of Jitender Tomar, who was a sepoy in the Jat Regiment, had sought a probe into the unnatural death alleging it could be a result of troubled relationship with his wife and in-laws.
The court also pulled up the police for ‘shamelessly’ putting Tomar’s mother to the ‘ignominy of getting arrested’ in an FIR registered against her for allegedly subjecting her daughter-in-law to cruelty and criminal breach of trust and ‘thereby throttle her voice of dissent’.
Additional Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma passed the order on an appeal filed by Tomar’s mother Sushila Devi. The court directed that ‘the matter be placed before the DCP concerned who shall ensure that the investigation is handed over to an independent agency to bring out the entire truth...’
The appeal was filed against an order of a magisterial court refusing to direct registration of FIR and probe Tomar’s death.