NHRC notice to Delhi Police Commissioner

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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports that Delhi police arrested a man from his house in West Delhi and took him to police station naked in full public view hurling insults and abuses. The accused requested police to allow him wear clothes but was instead told that he would be paraded in this way only.

The NHRC has observed that the contents of the media reports, if true, amount to inhuman and unprofessional approach of the Delhi Police personnel. Humiliating a person by parading him naked in full public view and in front of his family members is absolutely unethical and violation of his human rights. The right to dignity of the victim has been grossly violated. Accordingly, it has issued a notice to the Commissioner of Police, Delhi, calling for detailed report in the matter within 4 weeks, according to an NHRC release.

According to the media reports, carried on May 22, 2018, a 12 member police team including some women police personnel, reached a resettlement colony in Inderpuri to arrest the accused who was bathing at that time. To avoid arrest, he tried to come down from the upper story of his house only with a towel tied to his waist. In an attempt to escape, he jumped from the building during which his towel dropped and when he fell on the ground naked, police nabbed him.

The family members of the accused reportedly requested police that he should be allowed to wear his clothes but they did not listen and abused him. When he requested policemen to take him to the police station through a street instead of a busy road, the cops rejected his request and took him to the police station in full public view.