Delhi HC reduced punishment of ACP R P Tyagi

Delhi HC reduced punishment of ACP R P Tyagi

The High Court of Delhi on Wednesday reduced the death sentence awarded to former ACP R P Tyagi in a 1987 custodial death case, to eight-years rigorous imprisonment. In December 2006, a lower court had awarded capital punishment to Tyagi for torturing two persons to death in judicial custody at Vivek Vihar Police Station. However, the Delhi High Court on Wedneday reduced his punishment.

It also cut the three-years rigorous imprisonment awarded to a close associate of Tyagi, former sub-inspector Tej Singh, to six months. Another associate former ACP K P Singh was acquitted. He was sentenced to one year of rigorous imprisonment by the lower court.

The two Victims Mahender Kumar & Ram Kumar had died in Vivek Vihar Police Station in East Delhi in 1987.

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