The Human Rights Forum (HRF) termed as ‘‘unacceptable’‘ the conduct of the Yerragondapalem police and the alleged criminal negligence of a private hospital in Guntur which provided treatment to a Dalit youth from Prakasam district, who succumbed to burns sustained during a suicide bid on December 12.
Visiting the bereaved family members at Mallapalem in Prakasam district on Friday, HRF Andhra Pradesh unit general secretary Y. Rajesh and State secretary G. Rohith said that on December 6, the deceased, Moses was called to the police station for questioning in connection to a scuffle he had witnessed. Following alleged police torture, he resorted to self-immolation. He was rushed to the Government hospitals at Yerragondapalem and Markapur before he was shifted to a private hospital in Gunturl.