AMN /Mumbai
The Maharashtra government has set up a seven-member committee headed by Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Sudhir Shrivastava to recommend ways to stop the custodial deaths
The formation of the panel comes in the wake of the the custodial death of Aniket Kothale in Sangli city earlier this month.
Minister of State for Home (Rural) Deepak Kesarkar informed that the committee will also recommend measures so that people get proper treatment at police stations.
“The panel will submit its report to the government within 15 days. Once the committee submits the report on these two issues, the government will issue circulars aimed at putting in place a system whereby incidents of custodial deaths are brought to zero in a progressive state like Maharashtra,” he said.
The minister claimed that the number of custodial deaths in Maharashtra has now come down from 36 to 15-16.
Kesarkar said that Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been advocating the need for use of modern crime detection techniques like narco tests, brain mapping to detect crime.