NO GUN INJURIES ON MAN WHO DIED ON R-DAY: COPS TO HC
NEW DELHI: The Delhi and Uttar Pradesh police forces on Friday told the Delhi high court that the 25-year-old farmer, who died after his tractor overturned during the protesting farmers’ tractor rally on Republic Day, had not suffered any gunshot wounds.
The police forces of the two states have made the submission based on the post-mortem and X-ray reports, given by the District Hospital at Rampur in UP, which prima facie states that “there was no gunshot injury in the body of the deceased”.
The report comes on a plea by the deceased farmer’s — Navreet Singh— grandfather that contended that his grandson had sustained a gunshot wound to his head.
The police said according to the post-mortem report, the farmer died due to a head injury as a result of the accident.
The Delhi Police, represented in court by the Delhi government standing counsel Rahul Mehra and advocate Chaitanya Gosain, has also relied upon the footage collected from CCTV cameras located at the incident spot on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg -- where the young farmer died — and said that the man was driving the tractor at high speed and the vehicle overturned after hitting some barricades.
It said footage also shows that the police personnel were running away from the speeding tractor and that none of them fired upon the vehicle or the driver.
The Delhi Police has also said that closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage further indicates that the protestors did not take the injured Navreet Singh to any nearby hospital and instead they attacked the ambulances that reached the site after hearing about the accident.
THE REPORT COMES ON A PLEA BY GRANDFATHER OF VICTIM NAVREET SINGH THAT CONTENDED THAT THE 25-YEAROLD SUSTAINED A GUNSHOT WOUND ON HIS HEAD