UP Businessman Dies In Police Raid At Gorakhpur Hotel, 6 Cops Suspended
NDTV
The victim's family has alleged that the businessman was assaulted while the police maintain the man's death was an 'accident'. He fell inside the hotel room, say police.
Six policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's homestead, have been suspended after a businessman died during a late-night police raid at a city hotel on Tuesday.
The victim's family has alleged that the businessman was assaulted while the police maintain the man's death was an 'accident'. He fell inside the hotel room, say police.
The dead man has been identified as Manish Kumar Gupta, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. He and two other people from different cities were in the hotel room at the time of the raid that took place after midnight on Tuesday. The people with the victim told media that they were business associates and had come to Gorakhpur to meet a common friend.
"The three of us were sleeping in our room. Around 12:30 am, the doorbell rang. I opened the door and there were 5-7 policemen there and the boy from the reception. They came inside the room and started asking us for IDs. I showed my ID and then woke up Manish. He asked the cops why we were being troubled this late at night. The cops then started threatening us," Harveer Singh, one of the men who was inside the hotel room, said to reporters. Mr Singh told the media he lives in Haryana's Gurgaon.
