The Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) in the present day directed the Punjab Chief Secretary to conduct an inquiry into allegations of police torture of a Sikh youth in Sunam on September 2 and submit a report inside two weeks.
Taking cognisance of a grievance filed by BJP chief and Rajya Sabha MP Tarun Chugh, NHRC member Priyank Kanoongo held a listening to in the present day and issued instructions to the Punjab authorities.
In line with the grievance, the sufferer was protesting in opposition to drug abuse in Punjab throughout Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s Lok Milni programme at Sheron village in Sunam. He was allegedly displaying a black flag as a mark of protest when he was taken into police custody.
“The matter was thought of by the NHRC bench, presided over by member Priyank Kanoongo, which directed the Chief Secretary, DGP Punjab, SP Sangrur and District Justice of the Peace, Sangrur, to conduct a right away inquiry and submit a point-wise Motion Taken Report (ATR) inside two weeks,” NHRC mentioned.
The bench additionally directed that the sufferer undergoes a right away medico-legal examination and that full and unedited CCTV footage from the involved police premises be preserved and submitted in an authenticated copy on a pen drive.
The authorities have additional been directed to furnish the FIR and custody data, particulars of all police personnel concerned within the detention and interrogation, and a report on the allegations regarding the sufferer’s relations.
The fee additionally directed the authorities to right away safe and protect all medical data, CCTV footage, police data, digital information and different materials proof linked with the incident.
