Now, woman alleges son murdered at illegal de-addiction centre in Gwalior

Bhopal: Three days after a raid blew the lid off obnoxious ‘treatment’ regimen in an illegal de-addiction centre in Gwalior, a woman from neighbouring district of Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh alleged that centre workers murdered her son.

After the news of horror chambers surfaced,

Gita Pathak

- a resident of Sipri Bazar locality of Jhansi in UP - reached out to Gwalior Police on Monday. She told the cops that her son Sachin Pathak was admitted to the centre on April 9 this year. Three days later, she was informed by the centre ithat her son was critical.

“They came to Jhansi with critically injured Sachin and left him at home. He died the same day,” she told the police in Gwalior. Pathak told cops that after his marriage, Sachin had become an alcoholic. Her daughter-in-law admitted him to the centre where he was allegedly tortured. Pathak demanded that MP Police should register a complaint under section of murder against those who are running the centre.

Station house officer of Bahodapur police station in Gwalior told media, “A case related to murder of Gita’s son was already being investigated by Sipri Bazar police station in Jhansi.”

After the raid on

Soham deaddiction centre

on June 24, the police arrested five persons against whom an FIR was lodged by the officials of social justice department on June 25.

SP Harinarayanchari Mishra said, “Cases were registered against five accused for wrongful confinement and assaulting addicts. Separate cases were registered against them for assaulting addicts after illegal confinement.” Regarding alleged murder of Jhansi-based man, he said, “The case of murder was not brought to the notice of MP Police by the social justice department. If there is such a case, we will investigate it.”

Social justice department shot off a letter to the police to register an FIR against director Satish Vijawargiya, a resident of Arera Colony, Bhopal, Kapil Garg, secretary, a resident of Gwalior and Rahul Choudhry, treasurer, among others.

After the raid, 53 addicts were freed from the centre and handed over to their family persons. The addicts had told officials they were hanged upside down and were beaten. Many of them were tied to chairs and were thrashed badly.