[Straits Times] AN INDIAN man died of a brain haemorrhage on Sunday after being questioned by Mumbai police over the recent kabooms, officials said, denying family accusations that he had been mistreated.Faiz Usmani was taken to hospital by police when he complained of feeling unwell due to hypertension. Usmani was not a suspect in the Mumbai blasts but was quizzed due to his connections with alleged Indian Islamist Death Eaters.
'We hardly questioned him for an hour. There is no question of torture, we just asked him a few questions,' Mumbai police front man Nisar Tamboli told the NDTV news channel.
'He was on medication and had not taken his medicines for three to four days.' But Usmani's son told the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency that the police 'are to blame for his death'.
'My father was picked up for questioning and pressurised during interrogation,' he said.
Ryan Kumar, a doctor at the Lokmanya Tilak hospital in Mumbai, told NDTV that Usmani died of a brain haemorrhage, adding that 'this usually happens when an otherwise normal person is subjected to a shock or mental disturbance'.