Four policemen were suspended for allegedly beating an elderly man to death in Sangrampur village of Bisauli area.
Sub-Inspectors Sunil Kumar and Ajit Kumar, constable Suresh and a home guard allegedly beat 60-year-old Mashkur Nabi yesterday when they had gone to his house to arrest his son Akbar on charges of involvement in an illegal money transaction racket, Superintendent of Police Ashok Kumar Verma said.
An FIR was lodged against the four under section 304 IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), Verma said, adding that post-mortem report of the victim stated heart attack as the cause of death. A probe is on in the matter.
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