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HC seeks Delhi govt, police stand on plea for SIT probe into death of farmer on Jan 26 tractor rally
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HC seeks Delhi govt, police stand on plea for SIT probe into death of farmer on Jan 26 tractor rallyPTI
Last Updated: Feb 11, 2021, 05:06 PM IST
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Justice Yogesh Khanna issued notice to the Delhi government, Delhi Police, Uttar Pradesh Police and the Chief Medical Officer of District Hospital at Rampur, where the post mortem was carried out.
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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought response of the AAP government and police on a plea seeking a court-monitored SIT probe into the death of a 25-year-old man who died after his tractor overturned during the protesting farmers tractor rally on Republic Day.
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Delhi HC issues notice to respondents into death of farmer Navreet Singh who died during tractor rally ANI | Updated: Feb 11, 2021 20:11 IST
New Delhi [India], February 11 (ANI): Delhi High Court on Thursday issued notice to respondents on a plea seeking court-monitored probe into the death of a farmer Navreet Singh, who died during the tractor rally on January 26 in the national capital. The family had approached Delhi High Court and raised several questions on the death and sought a post mortem video and X-ray report of deceased. We have no hesitation to share the electronic evidence and related documents with deceased farmer family, Delhi Police told High Court during the hearing of a petition which was moved by the family of Navreet Singh, the farmer who died during the tractor rally on January 26 in the national capital.
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Petition states the circumstances in which Navreet Singh lost his life are ‘highly suspicious’
The grandfather of a 25-year-old farmer, who died during the tractor rally on Republic Day, moved the Delhi High Court on Wednesday seeking a court-monitored Special Investigating Team (SIT) probe into the incident.
The plea, which is listed for hearing before Justice Yogesh Khanna on Thursday, states that the circumstances in which Navreet Singh lost his life are “highly suspicious”. According to the plea, “eyewitness statements corroborated by medical opinion do not rule out that the petitioner’s grandson was shot by policemen”.
‘No investigation’
“The Delhi police have without any inquiry or investigation hastily prejudged the cause of death by declaring that the petitioner’s grandson died in an accident and there were no bullets fired,” says the petition filed by 69-year-old Hardeep Singh.