A year ago, a native of Telangana Sheikh Babu Sheikh of the age 62 was arrested after being suspected for theft, by the then Police Inspector (PI) of Fatehganj police station and policemen of Surveillance Squad. He was beaten to death and later his body was disposed of by the policemen. Sheikh lived in Ahmedabad and used to sell shawls by visiting different cities every day. On December 20, 2019, he was visiting Vadodara with his son-in-law, Ibrahim Khan Kasim Khan Pathan and had breakfast near ST Depot. After that Sheikh parked his bicycle and went for selling. Meanwhile, the surveillance staff of Fatehganj Police Station detained Sheikh on the suspicion of burglary at the house of Satish Thakkar, a resident of TP-13 area. He was brought to the Fatehgunj police station and was strapped up to the chairs in a computer room and was also tortured physically and mentally and third-degree torture was used to make him confess to the theft, later he died. Following the death of Sheikh, the

Author-Shlok Talati