Consequent upon the alleged killing of a 24-year-old MBA graduate Ranbir Singh, by the Uttarakhand police in a falls encounter in Dehra Dun on 3rd July’09, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed an FIR on 5th Aug’09 against several police officers of Uttarakhand after finding that a ‘prima facie’ case existed against the said police officers in the so called encounter, as per the preliminary report placed by the CBI before the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Dehra Dun.
According to Rabindra Pal Singh, the father of the diseased, Ranbir Did his MBA from Ford Institute of Meerat and was going to join Kotak Mahindra in Dehra Dun a trainee manager. A retired soldier, the father of the victim categorically stated that his son did never have any criminal background.
Due to public outcry and demand from the bereaved family, the chief minister of Uttarakhand handed over the case to the CBI on 8th July’09, although the Uttarakhand police too registered a case of murder against 14 policemen on 5th July’09 who have since been suspended. The CBI case has made the state police case irrelevant.
As per sources, a six-member special investigation team led by SP Nilabh Kishore searched the so called encounter area on 1st and 2nd Aug’09 and found a dozen used cartridges in a small area of about 250 sqm indicating that the young boy was fired from a very close range. Besides, no bullets were found in other areas of the jungle where the encounter was supposed to have taken place.
Dehra Dun police had claimed that they had to fire on the MBA graduate as he snatched the revolver of an Inspector of the police and started firing on the police force. The CBI on the other hand found that no firing was done from the so-called snatched revolver.
The autopsy report of the slain revealed 26 injury and 10 bullet marks on his body, two of these being in the head. The large number of injury mark on the body indicates a possible torturing of the victim before killing in the alleged fake encounter.
CBI could not find any criminal records of the victim or his friends as claimed by the police. The eyewitnesses told CBI that police dragged the young man inside a jeep contrary to the claim by police that the victim snatched a revolver of an inspector and fired at the police.
The inconsolable mother of the boy said that the police had shot her son dead ahead of President Pratibha Patil’s visit to the hill state, just to earn brownie points.
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