NEW DELHI: A fast track court here on Wednesday held guilty two former Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) and one serving Inspector of the Delhi police in a custodial death case at the Vivek Vihar police station in East Delhi in 1987.

The prosecution's allegations against the three convicted policemen - retired ACPs R.P. Tyagi and K.P. Singh and Inspector Tej Singh -- that they had beaten up the victim, Mahinder Kumar, so severely in the lock-up that he had succumbed to the injuries at LNJP Hospital here.

The police had taken the victim to the hospital for treatment.

The Vivek Vihar police had arrested Mahinder Kumar and his friend Ram Kumar in a case of causing minor injuries to a couple, the charge-sheet said. Ram Kumar managed to escape from their custody at the hospital but the police allegedly got him eliminated after some time.

Despite orders for registration of a case against the erring police officers by the Sub-Divisional Magistrate of the area, the city police did not bother to book them.

Finally, the Crime Branch lodged the case on a lower court's directions on a complaint by the family of Mahinder Kumar.

Additional Sessions Judge Rajendra Kumar of the Karkardooma courts held R.P. Tyagi guilty under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code; K.P. Singh under Section 217 (disobeying a direction of law) of IPC and Inspector Tej Singh under Sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of IPC.

However, the court acquitted the other police personnel charge-sheeted in the case saying that the prosecution had failed to prove the charges against them.

The court also convicted a doctor of Swami Dayanand Hospital here for preparing a wrong medico-legal case (MLC) about the number of injuries on Mahinder Kumar.

The Judge will pronounce the quantum of sentence to be awarded to the three convicts on Friday.

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