UP cops beat her till her screams for help stopped, says dead Chandauli girl’s sister

After a young woman was found hanging following a police raid at her home in Chandauli, her younger sister has alleged she was beaten to death by the cops who staged her death to look like a suicide.

In the latest development in the case of a 21-year-old girl's death during a police raid in Uttar Pradesh's Chandauli, the deceased’s sister has alleged that police personnel beat her sister to death and then hanged her to make it look like a suicide.

Nisha Yadav’s younger sister Gunja Yadav told Aaj Tak/India Today that the police barged into their house on Sunday and thrashed them without providing any reason or warrant. Despite their protests, police officers of both sexes beat them, she alleged.

“We protested. My sister ran inside and tried to bolt the door, but they caught her and thrashed her. They bashed me up as well. My sister’s screams for help suddenly stopped," Gunja said.

When she finally went inside the room her elder sister had run into, she saw Nisha hanging from the ceiling fan. The noose was tied loosely around Nisha’s neck and her feet were still brushing against the floor, Gunja said.

She untied the noose, made with a saree, around her sister’s neck and checked her breathing and pulse. But by then Nisha was already dead.

Contrary to Gunja and her family’s claims, Nisha’s post mortem states that there was no internal or external injury to her body. It further states that since the cause of death is not clear, a viscera sample has been preserved for testing.

However, two marks were found on the girl's body, a scratch in the front of the throat and minor bruising 0.5 cm below the left jaw.