NHRC orders inquiry against SHO for
torture
NEW DELHI:
Taking a strong view of "brutal beating"
of four persons, who had been illegally detained by the Delhi Police,
the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Friday ordered a departmental
inquiry against the police official responsible and a compensation
of Rs 10,000 each to the four victims to be paid by the Delhi government.
NHRC gave the directive after it received
a petition from Dara Singh alleging that he and three others were
illegally detained at the Anand Parbat police station and were brutally
beaten by the SHO. Later, the victims were also implicated in a false
case, the petition said.
The petition also carried photographs
of the injuries they had sustained during the detention. Upon the
directions of the NHRC, an inquiry was conducted by the commission's
investigation division, which examined witnesses, the medico-legal
and other reports. The police had denied the allegation saying that
the complainants had neither been detained overnight nor tortured
and that the injuries were present on their body at the time of arrest.
The police version was, however, refuted
by the medical report and a constable in the same police station told
the investigating team that the SHO had manipulated the register of
the police station to record his absence at the time of the incident,
NHRC said. After considering the report and evidences collected by
the team, NHRC held the SHO responsible for illegally detaining four
persons and torturing them. It also directed transfer of the constable
in view of apprehension of danger to his life for telling the truth
to NHRC. (PTI)
