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Khwaja Yunus custodial killing: Four cops not to be added as accused
Updated On: 08 September, 2022 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Jyoti Punwani
Decision by Sessions Court comes a month after new Special PP sought to withdraw his predecessor Dhiraj Mirajkar’s plea to include the policemen as accused; senior counsel Mihir Desai says they will appeal against the order
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Khwaja Yunus was arrested in connection with the December 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast, but died in police custody (right) Yunus’s mother Asiya Begum is fighting for justice ever since
In an important development in the Khwaja Yunus custodial death case, Sessions Court judge V M Pathade ruled on Wednesday that the four policemen named by eyewitness Dr Abdul Mateen as having thrashed 27-year-old Khwaja Yunus in the Ghatkopar lock-up till he collapsed, would not be added as accused in the case.
Yunus, a computer engineer, was arrested for the December 2002 Ghatkopar bomb blast which killed two persons. Dr Mateen was a co-accused in the case. In January 2003, within a fortnight of his arrest, Yunus was reported “missing’’, with cops saying that he had escaped from a police vehicle while being taken to Aurangabad.
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