Custodial death: OHRC orders govt to pay Rs 5L compensation

Das in his petition further mentioned that despite knowing Biswal’s state of mind the jail authorities had neither provided him psychiatric treatment nor taken him for counselling

Custodial death: OHRC orders govt to pay Rs 5L compensation

The Odisha Human Rights Commission has directed the state government to give a compensation of Rs 5 lakh to the next kin of an undertrial who committed suicide by hanging self in 2018.

According to sources, Jitendra Kumar Biswal (32) had hanged self at the toilet of the Bhubaneswar-based Jharpada Special Jail on May 12, 2018 while undergoing jail term there.