On October 7, the Sovietsky Court of Makhachkala remanded two more police officers suspected of abuse of power, which led to the death of the detainee Kurban Dalgatov. Thus, now seven employees of the Sovietsky District Department of Internal Affairs are involved in the torture case.

A 35-year-old employee of an insurance company, master of sports Kurban Dalgatov was detained on the night of January 21. The police learned that he helped one of the participants in a domestic conflict escape from the scene of the shooting. He was taken to the District Department of Internal Affairs for interrogation, during which he died.

According to the official version of the police, “during the investigation, the citizen’s health deteriorated, he was given first aid. The police officers decided to take him to a medical facility. Despite the measures taken, the doctors confirmed the man’s death. It was later established that the deceased suffered bodily injuries, which may have caused the death of the detainee.”

Dalgatov's death caused a great stir. The relatives of the deceased stated that he died as a result of torture. At their instigation, the media began to quote the doctors' conclusions: "Electric shocks were inflicted on the heart area, after losing consciousness with respiratory failure followed by cardiac fibrillation (suffocation), he died." The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (abuse of power, resulting in the death of the victim through negligence). Three police officers who interrogated Kurban Dalgatov were detained: Lieutenant Islam Atavov, Lieutenant Magomed Malikov and Senior Lieutenant Magomedkamil Kurbanov. At the trial to choose a preventive measure for them, they stated that they were not guilty of anything, that "Dalgatov, clutching his heart, leaned against the wall, and then fell, hitting his face on the floor..."

The head of the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs was fired, three of his deputies and several other employees were suspended from work for the duration of the internal investigation. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Abdurashid Magomedov, and the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, came to the widow of the murdered man with condolences and promised that the perpetrators would be punished.

At the same time, she and other relatives began to receive threats and demands to delete their comments about the incident from social networks. Kurbanov's widow is sure that about 10 people took part in the beating and almost everyone who was in the district department saw and heard how her husband was being tortured, and therefore should be punished for not intervening and not stopping the torture.

In the spring, the investigation detained another suspect, Mavlet Amirov. The fifth person involved in the case was a criminal investigation officer, Bulat Medzhidov. The names of the last two arrested police officers have not been disclosed.

The case with Dalgatov is not the first suspicious death in the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs. In December 2006, 22-year-old Nadyr Magomedov died here. His family was told that he died in a pre-trial detention cell from heart failure, but later an expert found a piece of a plastic bag in his throat. The case caused outrage in Makhachkala, a protest was held outside the police department demanding that those responsible for his death be punished, but the investigation led to nothing.

In 2021, in the building of the Sovetsky District Department of Internal Affairs, two National Guard officers shot and killed the former head of the village of Novokuli, 34-year-old Abakar Kaplanov. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the cause was a conflict over a disputed plot of land.