Suryahasa Encounter: Wife Refuses to Accept Body, Alleges Police Conspiracy

The controversy surrounding the police encounter killing of the well-known Suryahasa continues to intensify. After his body was taken to Sadar Hospital for postmortem, the process of handing over the body began. However, Suryahasa’s wife refused to accept her husband’s remains, alleging that the police had pre-planned the encounter and denied her any opportunity to see him alive.

According to his wife, she had requested police officials for time so that Suryahasa could surrender peacefully, but instead, he was shot. She insists Suryahasa was unarmed at the time of his death and was carrying only an Aadhaar card and some medication. She further claimed his health was so poor that he could not have possibly tried to escape.

She recounted her last phone conversation with her husband at 3 PM, in which he told her he was at his aunt’s home in Nawadi, Deoghar. She alleges that the police had already threatened them with an encounter if he did not surrender. There is widespread discussion in the area about the incident, but police officials have yet to issue an official response to the allegations.

Suryahasa’s wife has raised multiple questions regarding the encounter, claiming she was not allowed to see the body either at the scene of the incident or at the hospital. She refused to sign the necessary documents to take custody of the body, saying, “I want him alive, just as he was arrested. How can I accept this?”

She also rejected the police’s claim that weapons were recovered from Suryahasa, insisting he only had some medicines and his identity card when they last spoke. She said Suryahasa suffered from typhoid and malaria, and had been ill for over two weeks.

The authorities are yet to respond to these serious allegations. Meanwhile, the controversy over the encounter and the refusal of the family to accept the body has only fueled public outrage and raised questions over the conduct of the police.