Police Raid led UP businessman death, 6 cops suspended

|NDTV|

Six policemen in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's homestead, have been suspended after a businessman died during a late-night police raid at a city hotel on Tuesday.

The victim's family has alleged that the businessman was assaulted while the police maintain the man's death was an 'accident'. He fell inside the hotel room, say police.

The dead man has been identified as Manish Kumar Gupta, a resident of Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur. He and two other people from different cities were in the hotel room at the time of the raid that took place after midnight on Tuesday. The people with the victim told media that they were business associates and had come to Gorakhpur to meet a common friend.

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