NHRC notice to Rajasthan Govt over alleged police brutality

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New Delhi  : The National Human Rights Commission ( NHRC)  has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that several social activists and Dalit leaders have raised their concern over police brutality and the way several people belonging to the Dalit communities were falsely implicated in criminal cases and are languishing in jails without bail in Rajasthan even after six weeks when a Bandh was called on April 2, 2018, in protest against the Supreme Court order regarding SC/ST (PoA) Act. The news report has mentioned several incidents of abuse of power by police in which, even the women and children were not spared.

 The Commission has observed that the allegations of illegal arrest, physical torture and implication of people in false criminal cases, if true, raise serious issue of violation of human rights of the victims and is a matter of concern.  Accordingly, it has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary, Government of Rajasthan, calling for a report in the matter within six weeks with a further direction to the Director General of Police, Rajasthan, to submit action taken report about the alleged police brutality, according to an NHRC release.

 According to the media report carried on May 18, 2018, a CRPF jawan posted in Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, who had come to attend his sick mother on leave, was allegedly dragged out of his house by police on April 2, 2018, and was severely beaten up and was not even allowed to put on his slippers.  He was implicated in a false case and languishing in jail for almost a month now.

On the same day, police reportedly broke open the door of the house of a government school teacher, barged inside and beat him while taking him to the police station and from there to jail. As per the news report, hundreds of other Dalits are also languishing in jails.