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Undertrial for 37 yrs dies
A 70-yr-old woman, locked up on charges of killing her son, died in a Uttrakhand jail under mysterious circumstances.
DEHRA DUN: Here's a story of justice delayed with a horrible fatal ending. A 70-year-old woman, locked up on charges of killing her son, and forgotten by the judicial system, died in mysterious circumstances in a jail in Pithoragarh in Uttrakhand.
Heera Devi, who was arrested in 1970 and then sent to a mental asylum in Varanasi for treatment because she was declared mentally-disturbed, was transferred to Almora jail on January 8 this year.
On Monday, other inmates found the undertrial vomiting blood and raised an alarm. She was taken to a hospital where she died.
Pithoragarh superintendent of police Ajay Rautela said the post-mortem showed that she died of shock and bleeding in the upper gastric tube. A magisterial inquiry had been ordered, he said.
Rautela said that after being accused of killing her son, the woman was in a disturbed state mentally and sent to an asylum, where she stayed for around 25 years.
Cases under Sections 302 and 201 of IPC had almost never been heard since the woman was mostly in an asylum, but no court thought it fit to examine her status as an undertrial. No reasons were known immediately for her transfer from the asylum to the Almora jail nor did jail authorities say when, if at all, the case of the woman from Raina village had been last heard.
Heera Devi, who was arrested in 1970 and then sent to a mental asylum in Varanasi for treatment because she was declared mentally-disturbed, was transferred to Almora jail on January 8 this year.
Pithoragarh superintendent of police Ajay Rautela said the post-mortem showed that she died of shock and bleeding in the upper gastric tube. A magisterial inquiry had been ordered, he said.
Rautela said that after being accused of killing her son, the woman was in a disturbed state mentally and sent to an asylum, where she stayed for around 25 years.
Cases under Sections 302 and 201 of IPC had almost never been heard since the woman was mostly in an asylum, but no court thought it fit to examine her status as an undertrial. No reasons were known immediately for her transfer from the asylum to the Almora jail nor did jail authorities say when, if at all, the case of the woman from Raina village had been last heard.
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