Overview
- Police registered a murder FIR under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita after a panel at AIIMS Bhopal cited traumatic haemorrhagic pancreatitis from blunt trauma and ruled the death homicidal.
- Constables Santosh Bamaniya and Saurabh Arya were suspended; Arya has been arrested as searches continue for Bamaniya, according to the latest reports.
- CCTV from Indrapuri shows one officer holding Udit Gaayke while another hits him with a stick during a late-night pursuit after a party.
- Friends allege the constables demanded Rs 10,000 to stop the assault, claims that contrast with the officers’ statement that only minor force was used.
- The victim’s family is seeking a CBI or SIT investigation as protests mount, with a departmental inquiry proceeding alongside the criminal case.