Via PTI
NEW DELHI: The NHRC has issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh govt and the state’s police leader over reviews {that a} girl was once subjected to “excessive torture” via allegedly stripping and brutally beating her with a belt at a police station in Lalitpur district, the rights panel stated on Saturday.
The police officer and his circle of relatives have no longer handiest “misused their place” but additionally subjected the sufferer to bodily torture and cruelty, the Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) seen.
The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of a media file that the police team of workers of Mehrauli police station “subjected a lady to excessive torture via stripping her and brutally beating with a belt in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh.
Reportedly, she was once operating as a home assist on the place of dwelling of a police officer,” it stated in a commentary.
The Fee has issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh leader secretary and the DGP, Uttar Pradesh looking for an in depth file inside 4 weeks, together with motion in opposition to the accountable police officer and any reduction granted the sufferer via the government, it stated.
The Fee has seen that the contents of the media reviews, if true, lift severe factor of violation of human proper to the sufferer.
Consistent with the media file, carried on Would possibly 6, the spouse of the police officer locked the sufferer at her house at the night time of Would possibly 2.
Her husband, a police reputable, got here in conjunction with a lady Inspector and began interrogating her a couple of robbery in the home.
But even so beating her brutally, in addition they subjected her to water cannon and electrical shocks to power her to confess the allegations, the commentary stated.
Later, sensing that the topic might snowball into an argument, she was once referred to as to the Mehrauli police station the place the police team of workers attempted to mission the topic as a dispute along with her husband and likewise initiated motion in opposition to him for tense peace, it added.
