Gurgaon: Stating that it was once “accountable for the wrongs dedicated by way of its officials”, the Haryana Human Rights Commission (HHRC) has asked the state govt to pay Rs 15,000 each and every to two individuals for alleged atrocities dedicated by way of police in a four-year-old case.
The sufferers had been allegedly taken into “unlawful preventive custody” and disrobed by way of the accused cops in Sonepat in 2015. Bali Singh Saini and his two sons had thrashed Sanjeev Kumar to stop the latter from deposing towards them in a case on February eight, 2015.
All of them are residents of Gohana, Sonepat. Kumar, who belongs to a scheduled caste, was once an eyewitness in a case towards Saini and was once because of give his observation within the court docket the following day towards Saini and his sons.
Kumar approached Sonepat police within the subject, however inspector Satyender Kumar, then SHO of Gohana city police station, and assistant sub-inspector Dayanand allegedly put force on him to withdraw the grievance. Kumar appealed for aid, and Suresh, the former vice-president of Gohana Municipal Committee, and his brother Balraj, along with different locals, visited the police station in the hunt for the registration of an FIR towards Saini. Instead of registering the FIR, however, the SHO allegedly took the brothers Suresh and Balraj into preventive arrest and thrashed and disrobed them within the police lock-up.
After they had been released, Suresh filed a grievance on the CM Window. A fortnight later, police registered a FIR in Kumar’s case. The subject was once probed by way of two deputy superintendents of police (DSPs), however they too allegedly compiled a biased report favouring Saini and the local cops. Suresh then approached the HHRC. The fee noticed that the alleged prolong in registration of a FIR underneath the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and mistaken investigation by way of a DSP-rank officer was once a serious subject.
The two cops, however, defended themselves saying the complainant and his brother created a ruckus within the police station and attempted to put force on them to check in a false case towards Saini.
In a 15-page-order issued in Gurgaon on Wednesday, HHRC chairperson Justice Satish Kumar Mittal and member Deep Bhatia noticed the “act of the police was once completely unlawful and obviously in violation of human rights of the electorate for which each the officials...are similarly accountable”.
The order said the government, after paying the repayment, might get well the quantity from to blame officials. The fee depended on pictures produced by way of Suresh which confirmed him and his brother Balraj standing semi-clad within the police station. “The fee additionally took into consideration statements by way of local residents that cops had registered a false case towards Suresh and Balraj on the instance of Saini, beat them up and locked them within the police station lock up after disrobing them,” HHRC member Bhatia said.
The sufferers had been allegedly taken into “unlawful preventive custody” and disrobed by way of the accused cops in Sonepat in 2015. Bali Singh Saini and his two sons had thrashed Sanjeev Kumar to stop the latter from deposing towards them in a case on February eight, 2015.
All of them are residents of Gohana, Sonepat. Kumar, who belongs to a scheduled caste, was once an eyewitness in a case towards Saini and was once because of give his observation within the court docket the following day towards Saini and his sons.
Kumar approached Sonepat police within the subject, however inspector Satyender Kumar, then SHO of Gohana city police station, and assistant sub-inspector Dayanand allegedly put force on him to withdraw the grievance. Kumar appealed for aid, and Suresh, the former vice-president of Gohana Municipal Committee, and his brother Balraj, along with different locals, visited the police station in the hunt for the registration of an FIR towards Saini. Instead of registering the FIR, however, the SHO allegedly took the brothers Suresh and Balraj into preventive arrest and thrashed and disrobed them within the police lock-up.
After they had been released, Suresh filed a grievance on the CM Window. A fortnight later, police registered a FIR in Kumar’s case. The subject was once probed by way of two deputy superintendents of police (DSPs), however they too allegedly compiled a biased report favouring Saini and the local cops. Suresh then approached the HHRC. The fee noticed that the alleged prolong in registration of a FIR underneath the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and mistaken investigation by way of a DSP-rank officer was once a serious subject.
The two cops, however, defended themselves saying the complainant and his brother created a ruckus within the police station and attempted to put force on them to check in a false case towards Saini.
In a 15-page-order issued in Gurgaon on Wednesday, HHRC chairperson Justice Satish Kumar Mittal and member Deep Bhatia noticed the “act of the police was once completely unlawful and obviously in violation of human rights of the electorate for which each the officials...are similarly accountable”.
The order said the government, after paying the repayment, might get well the quantity from to blame officials. The fee depended on pictures produced by way of Suresh which confirmed him and his brother Balraj standing semi-clad within the police station. “The fee additionally took into consideration statements by way of local residents that cops had registered a false case towards Suresh and Balraj on the instance of Saini, beat them up and locked them within the police station lock up after disrobing them,” HHRC member Bhatia said.
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