The action was taken following a complaint by the driver’s elder son who came from Punjab on Monday.
Joint commissioner of police Anand Prakash Tiwari said the FIR was registered against GST joint commissioners Amit Mohan and Paras Nath, along with some unnamed department officials, after a son of the truck driver, Balbir Singh from Ludhiana (Punjab), alleged that his father was physically assaulted and wrongfully confined for three days. ACP (Kalyanpur) Vikas Kumar Pandey said, “An FIR has been registered against three SGST officials and further action will be taken on the basis of evidence and other necessary findings.” The complainant, Govind Singh, also said his father had urged the officials to release him so that he could attend the funeral of his other son back home, but Balbir’s plea fell on deaf ears. Balbir Singh, 49, was going from Kanpur to Gobindgarh in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib district after loading scrap in the truck on Thursday night (July 20). During a check at the GT Road near Geeta Nagar crossing, the mobile team of the SGST caught him and seized his truck citing tax evasion. Meanwhile, he got the news of his younger son Mahesh’s death due to electrocution.
When he told the SGST officials that his child’s death in Ludhiana and they should allow him to go to his native place to attend his funeral, the officials allegedly refused. The officials then took Balbir, along with his vehicle, to the GST office in Lakhanpur. Trader groups said Balbir was forcefully confined to his truck even as he kept weeping for his dead son for three days. He was found dead in the cabin of his truck on Sunday. The viscera has been preserved as the cause of death was not clear in the post-mortem report. Gyanesh Mishra, the general secretary of Kanpur Udyog Vyapar Mandal, said the GST officials were wrong in detaining the driver of a truck that was already in their custody.
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