E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 59 police lock-up, where he died. Arrest warrants were issued against the Bolepur inspector and the Howrah subinspector, who was also suspended from duty. 312. The Government replied that the inspector and the subinspector had been found prima facie guilty of torturing Ananda Roy in custody. They had absconded and efforts were under way to arrest them. 313. Smarajjit Sardar, a resident of West Bengal, was reportedly arrested along with three other persons on 8 April 1994 and taken to Border Security Force (BSF) camp, Majhdia village, Nadia district. The arrests followed an incident wherein a soldier had been beaten up. Smarajjit Sardar was allegedly beaten to death and his body was dumped in a field. Police officials were said to have maintained that BSF soldiers were responsible for his death. 314. Manotosh Karmakar, a resident of Somrabazar Rail Colony, West Bengal, was reportedly detained on 9 September 1994 on suspicion of theft and died the next day at Balagarh police station. The police maintained that he hanged himself, but his mother, after seeing his body, reported bruises from the soles of boots on his neck, blood in the corners of his eyes and severe wounds on his hands. 315. The Government replied that an autopsy on Manotosh Karmakar had revealed death due to asphyxia from hanging which was ante-mortem and suicidal in nature. Preliminary inquiries had revealed that there were no marks of injury on the body. Censure of the duty officer, assistant subinspector and a sentry had been recommended for not remaining alert. Investigations were continuing. 316. Dulal Ghorai, a resident of Sadhupota village, Panskura, West Bengal, was among a number of persons reportedly beaten by a subdivisional police officer, an inspector and the officer in charge of Panskura police station, during a raid on Sadhupota village on 8 October 1994. A doctor at a primary health centre refused to treat him and he was declared dead on arrival at Tamluk Sadar hospital. A post-mortem revealed that he had died of "shock and internal haemorrhage" and noted ruptures in the scalp areas and chest muscles. 317. According to the Government, Dulal Ghorai had jumped out of a police jeep while being taken to a police station on 17 October 1994. He had complained of giddiness and body ache and was transferred to hospital where he was declared dead on arrival. The post-mortem found no external injury. No torture had been inflicted. Inquest proceedings found no excesses to have been committed by the police. 318. Hari Biswakarma, a Nepali woman residing in Matigara, Patiram Jote, Darjeeling, West Bengal, her husband, Bimal Biswakarma, and her aunt were reportedly stopped by a police jeep on 23 November 1994 and offered a ride by the police officers for a sum of money. In the jeep, police officials allegedly hit Hari Biswakarma and threw her out of the vehicle. They returned to the spot where she had been thrown out and allegedly beat her. Hari Biswakarma died of her injuries the next day in Siliguri subdivisional hospital. Matigara police were said to have refused to file a first