New Delhi: A month after former ACP R P Tyagi was sentenced to death for the custodial death, it’s now the turn for a retired Delhi Police Inspector for a crime he committed 17 years back.
The inspector, H P Singh who was then posted as Station House Officer at Geeta Colony Police Station, is guilty of committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Singh has been convicted under Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC after the prosecution succeeded in proving its case against him with the help of 23 witnesses.
However, apart from the inspector, Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar also convicted four other co-accused in the case for causing “grievous hurt” to 35-year-old victim Subash Chand, who was a tenant to these people in an East Delhi locality.
A sub-inspector also deposed as an eyewitness alleging it was Singh who had badly beaten Chand on the fateful night of January 23, 1990 in the presence of victim's landlords.
The eyewitness added that the landlord had approached the police for lodging an FIR against the deceased following an argument between them.
Chand reportedly succumbed to his injuries on February 3 the same year in a city hospital.
The Prosecution also alleged that Singh had tried to fabricate records in the Daily Diary and made an attempt to manipulate the investigation in the case.
Other four accused in the case - Budh Prakash, Sudesh Rani, Ashok Kumar and Shammi, who were the landlords of the victim, have been convicted under section 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the IPC.
The court fixed January 23 for pronouncing the quantum of sentence after hearing the arguments.
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