Rajesh Solanki was also picked by the police on April 14 along with Gopal Rathod, who died two days later.
More than a week after the death of a Dalit man, Hamir alias Gopal Rathod, in Rajkot due to alleged police torture, his friend on Wednesday also succumbed to injuries allegedly inflicted by the police when they were in custody at Malaviyanagar police station on April 14.
The deceased, Raju alias Rajesh Solanki (40), a resident of Khodiyarnagar in Rajkot city, was picked up by a team from the Malaviyanagar police station late in the night of April 14 after a quarrel with his neighbours. Rathod was also detained after he tried to intervene in the quarrel and tried to broker peace between Solanki and the latter’s neighbour.
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