The Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday arrested a police officer in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district in connection with the alleged custodial torture and death of an Adivasi man in July 2024, The Hindu reported.

This came a day after the Supreme Court warned that it would initiate contempt proceedings against officials of the CBI and the Madhya Pradesh government if they failed to arrest the two police officers accused in the death of 25-year-old Deva Pardhi by October 7 .

Prashant Shrivastava, CBI additional superintendent of police in Indore, told The Hindu on Saturday that Uttam Singh Kushwaha, who was an assistant sub-inspector at the time when the alleged incident took place at Myana Police Station in Guna district, was arrested.

The CBI obtained Kushwaha’s cus

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