NHRC discover to Uttar Pradesh authorities, DGP over torture of lady at police station

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The NHRC has issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh authorities and the state’s police chief over reviews {that a} lady was subjected to “extreme torture” by allegedly stripping and brutally beating her with a belt at a police station in Lalitpur district, the rights panel mentioned on Saturday.

The police officer and his household haven’t solely “misused their position” but in addition subjected the sufferer to bodily torture and cruelty, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) noticed.

The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that the police personnel of Mehrauli police station “subjected a lady to excessive torture by stripping her and brutally beating with a belt in Lalitpur district of Uttar Pradesh.

Reportedly, she was working as a home assist on the residence of a police officer,” it mentioned in a press release.

The Commission has issued notices to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary and the DGP, Uttar Pradesh searching for an in depth report inside 4 weeks, together with motion in opposition to the accountable police officer and any aid granted the sufferer by the authorities, it mentioned.

The Commission has noticed that the contents of the media reviews, if true, increase critical situation of violation of human proper to the sufferer.

According to the media report, carried on May 6, the spouse of the police officer locked the sufferer at her house on the night of May 2.

Her husband, a police official, got here together with a lady Inspector and began interrogating her a couple of theft in the home.

Besides beating her brutally, additionally they subjected her to water cannon and electrical shocks to power her to confess the allegations, the assertion mentioned.

Later, sensing that the matter might snowball into an argument, she was known as to the Mehrauli police station the place the police personnel tried to venture the matter as a dispute together with her husband and in addition initiated motion in opposition to him for disturbing peace, it added.