Policeman responsible for wrongful conviction investigated

A police officer who was in charge of the case of a teenager wrongfully accused of murder and executed has been placed under investigation, local procuratorate said on Thursday.

Feng Zhiming, now a deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of Hohhot City, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, was investigated for suspected crime of taking advantage of duty.

On Monday, the Inner Mongolia Higher People's Court overturned the conviction of Huugjilt, who was 18 years old when he was sentenced to death and executed in 1996 over the killing of a woman in a public toilet.

A serial rapist and murderer confessed to the killing in 2005.