Family to take action after man found
dead in police van
Nadeem Khan was arrested in
Rondebosch last week on suspicion of selling a stolen cellphone.
CAPE TOWN - The brother of a man who died in police custody says he intends taking action, as
he believes his arrest was unlawful.
Nadeem Khan was arrested in
Rondebosch last week on suspicion of selling a stolen cellphone.
He was declared dead on arrival at
the local police station.
The cause of Khan's death has not
yet been determined.
But his brother, Amien Khan, says a
post-mortem has shown no definitive evidence that he may have been assaulted.
“Being a medical personnel myself we
can only surmise the possible cause. I think there was negligence and a
wrongful arrest from the police's side.”
Khan says the father of two suffered
from bipolar disorder and was on treatment.
“The whole incident caused emotional
stress and that actually has a trigger to cause the sympathetic arousal to
increase adrenal secretion, which caused him to have hyperventilation and pain
on the heart.”
The Independent Police Investigative
Directorate (Ipid) is investigating the incident.
(Edited by Shimoney Regter)
