Minor Commits Suicide After Allegedly Being Beaten up Gujarat Cops

Dhruv Parmar, a class IX student was allegedly beaten up by policemen over no known offence according to eyewitnesses

Dhruv Parmar, a class IX student was severely beaten up by policemen over no known offence according to eyewitnesses. (Photo: iStockPhoto)

After coming under public pressure, Gujarat police filed an FIR against ‘unknown’ policemen for allegedly torturing a 14-year-old Dalit boy who committed suicide at his home on Saturday.

Dhruv Parmar, a class IX student was severely beaten up by policemen over no known offence according to eyewitnesses.

Police have refused to apply the Atrocity Act. JCP (crime branch) J K Bhatt said the FIR has been filed for abetment to suicide and under subsection 15 of the Juvenile Act.

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Many locals gathered at the police station on Sunday after the police refused to file an FIR. They then pelted stones at the police station, while “others thronged the post-mortem room at Civil Hospital and threatened not to cremate the boy’s body until the guilty were brought to book”, reported the Times of India.