Kanpur: President of Samajwadi Party (SP) Akhilesh Yadav has asked the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Government to compensate the victim Manish Gupta’s family with Rs. 2 crore.
He also said that SP will give Rs. 20 lakh compensation to the victim’s family, “To help the family with the business they were carrying out, Government (Yogi Adityanath government) should give Rs 2 crore for the compensation to the victim’s family and we (SP) have also decided to help the family by providing them with Rs. 20 lakh as compensation,” said Akhilesh Yadav.
Manish Gupta is a victim in a murder case where six policemen are alleged of his murder. Case has been lodged against six suspended police personnel as per officials. The victim Manish Gupta died of an alleged assault by the policemen who entered his hotel room in Gorakhpur in the early hours of Tuesday, claiming to be looking for criminals.
Victim’s wife Meenakshi has accused the police and hotel staff of a cover-up. “My husband was murdered in that hotel, he was killed by a policeman. There was no blood on the scene even though my husband was beaten to death. Two of his friends said that there was blood everywhere, but the hotel staff cleaned it up,” she said while weeping.
Manish Gupta, a 38-year-old property dealer from Kanpur, died in a hotel in Gorakhpur in the early hours of Tuesday. Police said they entered his hotel room as they were on the lookout for “suspicious persons”. They claim Manish Gupta died of a head injury sustained from falling to the ground in a state of drunkenness.
However, the victim’s family members claim he died after the policemen who entered his room attacked him.
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