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Delhi Police blames AAP for instigating Gajendra, delaying post-mortem

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Delhi Police blames AAP for instigating Gajendra, delaying post-mortem

Published on May 01, 2015 with No Comments

 

In its report to the Union Home Ministry on the suicide of Gajendra Singh, the Delhi Police, has blamed the Aam Aadmi Party and and the crowd present at its Jantar Mantar rally for the farmer’s death.

As per the Delhi Police report, AAP leaders were making provocative speeches, and the crowd present at the rally venue instigated and provoked Gajendra to commit suicide. The report also alleged that AAP did not heed to the police’s request to change the rally’s venue to Ram Lila Maidan.

The Delhi Police also alleged that the SDM of the New Delhi district, who was mandated by the Kejriwal government to conduct a probe, had asked the police not to conduct a post-mortem on the body of Gajendra.In its report, Delhi Police alleged that the SDM of Chanakyapuri wanted to delay autopsy of the farmer’s body but as he could not produce any official order for delaying the procedure, police went ahead with it.

The charges, however, were strongly refuted by District Magistrate (New Delhi) Sanjay Kumar who is carrying out a magisterial inquiry into the case.”Why would we want to delay the post-mortem? In fact when we reached the hospital, police refused to recognise our authority. They didn’t even reveal the name of the farmer to us. I don’t know why they are saying this,” Kumar told media.

Two eyewitnesses who had seen him climb the tree, and three AAP workers who had scrambled up to bring Singh down, are also being questioned, added police.

Police are also analysing Singh’s movements after he left his Dausa home to reach Jantar Mantar. “All this will help us find out whether he had reached there to commit suicide or if it was an accidental death,” they added.

Singh, a 41-year-old farmer from Rajasthan, allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree during an AAP rally against the land ordinance. In a note scribbled by him, Singh said he was thrown out of his home by his father after suffering crop loss.

 

 

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