LUCKNOW: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued understand to the Uttar Pradesh govt over the reported mob lynching of a person after pulling him out of a police van in Shamli district, noting that it seemed that the sufferer was not protected by way of policemen from the clutches of hooligans.
The understand was issued to the state chief secretary and director normal of police (DGP), calling for a detailed file within the subject within four weeks, a press release from the NHRC said Friday.
"There cannot be any denial that it was the solemn duty of the police personnel to keep the arrested man in safe custody so that he could not be denied his infallible right to get justice in accordance with law," the fee said.
In the instant reported incident, it seemed that not protecting the sufferer from the clutches of hooligans or an inciting mob ended in his death, it famous.
The fee took suo motu cognisance of media reports that Rajendra alias Manu (28) was pulled out of a police van and overwhelmed to death by way of a mob within the presence of constables in Hathchoya Village of Shamli district on November 26.
It observed that the contents of the media reports, if true, amounted to violation of the human rights of the sufferer.
The NHRC release discussed a video clip of the purported incident circulated at the social media showing the sufferer sitting in a police automobile. A man in a blue blouse opened the door of the van and slapped the sufferer again and again. A policeman seated subsequent to the sufferer held him by way of the arm. The guy was then seen pulling Rajendra out of the automobile.
The sufferer's circle of relatives has alleged that six villagers, with whom he had quarrelled yesterday, beat him to death with lathis.
The Shamli superintendent of police (SP) was reported as pronouncing that the sufferer didn't die in police custody as he had escaped from the police van and was overwhelmed up by way of the gang later. The SP had also reportedly said that once about two hours, the sufferer suffered a fall from the roof of his area and died due to head injuries, the release famous.
However, at the basis of a grievance filed by way of the sufferer's brother, an FIR below quite a lot of Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, together with 302 (homicide) and 148 (rioting with armed guns), was lodged at the Jhinjhana police station towards six persons and certainly one of them, recognized as the "main accused", was arrested, the NHRC said.
Meanwhile, the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress took potshots at the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) govt within the state, accusing it of "carrying out fake encounters".
"This government is carrying out fake encounters and we have been highlighting this. There is no law and order in the state and the police are using encounters to pat their own back. All encounters in the present regime should be thoroughly probed," SP MLC Rajpal Kashyap said.
Similar was the chorus of the Congress.
"The state government has failed on all fronts. Police encounters are done with a political agenda and these tantamount to violation of human rights, which need in-depth probes," Congress spokesperson Mukesh Singh Chauhan said.
The understand was issued to the state chief secretary and director normal of police (DGP), calling for a detailed file within the subject within four weeks, a press release from the NHRC said Friday.
"There cannot be any denial that it was the solemn duty of the police personnel to keep the arrested man in safe custody so that he could not be denied his infallible right to get justice in accordance with law," the fee said.
In the instant reported incident, it seemed that not protecting the sufferer from the clutches of hooligans or an inciting mob ended in his death, it famous.
The fee took suo motu cognisance of media reports that Rajendra alias Manu (28) was pulled out of a police van and overwhelmed to death by way of a mob within the presence of constables in Hathchoya Village of Shamli district on November 26.
It observed that the contents of the media reports, if true, amounted to violation of the human rights of the sufferer.
The NHRC release discussed a video clip of the purported incident circulated at the social media showing the sufferer sitting in a police automobile. A man in a blue blouse opened the door of the van and slapped the sufferer again and again. A policeman seated subsequent to the sufferer held him by way of the arm. The guy was then seen pulling Rajendra out of the automobile.
The sufferer's circle of relatives has alleged that six villagers, with whom he had quarrelled yesterday, beat him to death with lathis.
The Shamli superintendent of police (SP) was reported as pronouncing that the sufferer didn't die in police custody as he had escaped from the police van and was overwhelmed up by way of the gang later. The SP had also reportedly said that once about two hours, the sufferer suffered a fall from the roof of his area and died due to head injuries, the release famous.
However, at the basis of a grievance filed by way of the sufferer's brother, an FIR below quite a lot of Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections, together with 302 (homicide) and 148 (rioting with armed guns), was lodged at the Jhinjhana police station towards six persons and certainly one of them, recognized as the "main accused", was arrested, the NHRC said.
Meanwhile, the opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress took potshots at the Yogi Adityanath-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) govt within the state, accusing it of "carrying out fake encounters".
"This government is carrying out fake encounters and we have been highlighting this. There is no law and order in the state and the police are using encounters to pat their own back. All encounters in the present regime should be thoroughly probed," SP MLC Rajpal Kashyap said.
Similar was the chorus of the Congress.
"The state government has failed on all fronts. Police encounters are done with a political agenda and these tantamount to violation of human rights, which need in-depth probes," Congress spokesperson Mukesh Singh Chauhan said.
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