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Agra, Oct 21 (PTI) The Agra police on Thursday claimed that sanity worker Arun Valmiki, who died in police custody last week, had died of a heart attack.
Agra’s Superintendent of Police Muniraj G made the claim citing the findings of a panel of doctors who conducted the autopsy on the Valmiki youth.
The autopsy of the deceased youth was conducted by a panel of doctors and according to post mortem, he had died of myocardial infarction, that is, heart attack, said the SSP in a video statement.
Arun had been held by the police for allegedly stealing Rs 25 lakh from the ‘malkhana’ of the Jagdishpura police station, where he died on Wednesday.
The police had claimed to have recovered a sum of Rs 15 lakh from his house in the Lohamandi locality.
Reacting to the SSP’s claim of Arun’s death due to a heart attack, his family members asserted that he died in police custody due to torture by the police.