Dear friends,
We wish to share with you the following statement from National Human Rights Commission, New Delhi, India regarding a case of custodial torture in Jorhat, Assam, India. Earlier, Asian Human Rights Commission has issued an urgent appeal on the case (AHRC-UAC-074-2014) and it can be accessed here..
Asian Human Rights Commission
Hong Kong
National Human Rights Commission
New Delhi
PRESS RELEASE
New Delhi, 23rd May, 2014
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a youth, Siddharth Kaushik Dutta, was subjected to false implication and custodial torture in one of the police stations in Jorhat District of Assam. Reportedly, no action had been taken on two separate complaints made by the mother of the victim against the police and other accused.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victim and has issued notice to the Director General of Police, Assam, calling for a report within two weeks.
According to the media report, the Officer-in-Charge of Pulibor Police Station in Jorhat picked up the victim from his house on the 16th April, 2014 without any formal complaint against him. He was later transferred to Jorhat Sadar Police Station. His torture continued till the 26th April, 2014 and when the victim got unconscious he was shifted to Dibrugarh Medical College for treatment.
