Assam Director General of Police (DGP) GP Singh on Saturday ordered the withdrawal of the suspension orders of Inspector in Charge of Khelmati Outpost Dipankar Changmai and on-duty sentry constable Bhairab Deori and Home Guard Anil Bora in the custodial death of a detainee at Khelmati Police Outpost in the Lakhimpur district of Assam.
Khelmati IC Suspension In Custodial Death Case Withdrawn
GP Singh said that according to the post-mortem report of the deceased Arshad Ali (42), he died because of “pre-existing coronary disease”.
He further informed that a detailed enquiry and mandatory follow up would continue in connection with the death of the detainee.
Taking to microblogging platform X, the Assam DGP wrote, “Reference recent North Lakhimpur incident of death in police custody — Preliminary PM reports are indicative of death due to pre-existing coronary disease. District SP has been directed to withdraw suspension orders of the policemen including IC. However, detailed enquiry and mandatory follow-up would continue.”
The incident was reported on May 23 and there was a massage outage due to the incident occurred in front of the Khelmati Police Outpost.