Overview

• Udit Gaayke, 22, died after an encounter with patrolling officers in Bhopal’s Indrapuri area in the early hours of October 10.
• CCTV footage seized by investigators purportedly shows one constable restraining him while another strikes him with a baton.
• The AIIMS Bhopal autopsy cites traumatic haemorrhagic pancreatitis from blunt injury, which police say underpins the murder FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
• Constables Santosh Bamaniya and Saurabh Arya were suspended, and police reported arrests, with at least one in custody as efforts continue to trace the other in some accounts.
• Friends allege the constables demanded Rs 10,000 to stop the assault, and the family and students have called for a CBI investigation alongside ongoing departmental and criminal probes.