Doll Homicide Case, Dying within the custody of the accused… Who’s IG Zahoor Haider Zaidi of Himachal Pradesh who received life imprisonment? – #INA

IG Zahoor Zaidi sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nearly everyone seems to be conscious of the 2017 well-known doll gangrape and homicide case in Himachal Pradesh. On this case, Suraj, an accused of Nepali origin, died in police custody. The CBI’s particular court docket in Chandigarh heard on Monday within the case of Suraj’s police custody loss of life. Then he additionally heard his determination on it.

The court docket has sentenced eight policemen together with Himachal Police IG and IPS officer Zahoor Haider Zaidi, HPS officer and DSP Manoj Joshi to life imprisonment.

Not solely this, all these have additionally been fined one lakh rupees. This determination of the court docket has come seven and a half years after Suraj’s loss of life. The culprits embrace IG Zahoor Zaidi, DSP Manoj Joshi together with SHO Rajinder Singh of Kotkhai police station, ASI Deep Chand Sharma, Head Constable Mohan Lal, Surat Singh, Rafi Mohammad and Constable Ranjit Statea.

On January 18, the CBI court docket convicted all of them. The court docket took this determination primarily based on the statements of witnesses, proof and arguments of all of the events. On the identical time, the then SP of Shimla, D.W. Negi was acquitted as a result of lack of proof. After this, all of the culprits had been detained and despatched to Budail Jail in Chandigarh.

What’s doll homicide?

She was murdered after a gang rape on 4 July 2017 with a 16 -year -old pupil Gudiya. The accused carried out this incident within the Tandi forest of Kotkhai. Then left the doll’s physique in bare situation and fled. At the moment, the investigation of this case was began beneath the chairmanship of the then IG Zahoor Haider Zaidi. A particular investigation staff (SIT) was fashioned to research the case.

Suraj died in 2017

The police quickly received success within the case. All seven accused had been arrested by the SIT. One in all these accused was the solar of Nepali origin. Suraj died on 18 July 2017 beneath suspicious circumstances within the custody of Kotkhai police station. When the publish -mortem of the lifeless physique was completed, it was discovered that Suraj died because of the barbarity of the police. The case caught up a lot that the investigation of this case was handed over to the CBI on the orders of the Excessive Courtroom.

The CBI discovered that Suraj was killed in police custody and policemen hatched a conspiracy for this. After this, in August 2017, the CBI arrested Zaidi, Joshi and different policemen. Zaidi was additionally accused of threatening witnesses through the investigation and listening to. His bail was additionally canceled from this.

IG Zaidi remained in jail for 582 days

IG Zahoor Zaidi was arrested and stored in Kanda Jail in Shimla. He remained in jail for 582 days and was launched on bail from the Supreme Courtroom in April 2019. However the trial in opposition to him continued in court docket. Zaidi was suspended in August 2017. However he was restored in November 2019. In 2020, the then BJP authorities suspended Zaidi once more. In January 2023, the Congress authorities restored Zaidi’s companies. In September 2023, he was additionally posted within the police division.

What occurred within the doll case?

Anil alias Neelu, the primary accused of doll gangrape and homicide, has additionally been sentenced to life imprisonment within the yr 2021 from the court docket. In April 2018, Chirani Neelu was arrested by the CBI. On 28 April 2021, a particular court docket of Shimla convicted it. Now the choice of Chandigarh Courtroom has come on Suraj’s police custody.