Hit, humiliated, not allowed to sleep: Activist telegraphindia.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraphindia.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Counterview Desk
Even as welcoming the bail granted by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to young Dalit labour rights leader Nodeep Kaur, the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), taking note of continued incarceration of her colleague Shiv Kumar, also a Dalit, has demanded charges against them should be immediately dropped. Arrested in January from a Kundli border point, where they were said to be bring workers’ support to the ongoing farmers’ agitation, Ravi Kiran Jain, president, and Dr V Suresh, general secretary, PUCL, said, both were “brutally tortured.”
While the Haryana police, which picked them up, has been accused mercilessly beating and torturing both, as for Kumar, PUCL quotes a medical report submitted to the High Court on February 23, prepared by a five-doctor panel, which says that “all the injuries on the person of the patient are more than two weeks old and were caused by a blunt object/weapon.” The report also speaks of “four fractures”
Nodeep gets bail, report reveals bruises A medical review submitted in Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday revealed that Kaur, who had alleged police assault in custody, had suffered multiple injuries
Trade unionist Nodeep Kaur, in jail since January 12 for a demonstration for labour rights in Haryana’s Kundli, was released on bail on Friday night.
A medical report submitted in Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday revealed that Kaur, who had alleged police assault in custody, had suffered multiple injuries.
According to the medical examination report placed before the high court on Friday, Kaur had “purplish bruises of around 10x7cm present over LT (left) thigh, lateral aspect, bruises of around 5X6cm over RT (right) buttock”.
HC grants bail to labour rights activist Naudeep Kaur, released from Karnal jail
SECTIONS
Last Updated: Feb 26, 2021, 11:50 PM IST
Share
Synopsis
Naudeep Kaur was released from a Karnal jail around 7.30 pm, almost six weeks after she was booked for attempt to murder and other criminal offences.
Naudeep Kaur.
Labour rights activist Naudeep Kaur was freed on bail Friday by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, which said slapping charges like attempt to murder on her is a debatable issue to be considered at a later stage in the trial. Naudeep Kaur was released from a Karnal jail around 7.30 pm, almost six weeks after she was booked for attempt to murder and other criminal offences.
Outrage After Rats At Sonipat Hospital Nibble At Body Of Farmer Protester Outrage After Rats At Sonipat Hospital Nibble At Body Of Farmer Protester The Civil Hospital in Sonipat has been under the spotlight often over matters of hygiene.
Updated: February 19, 2021 2:15 pm IST
The Sonipat hospital has formed a panel to probe the matter and fix responsibility.
Chandigarh:
The body of a 70-year-old man who had been participating in the farmer protest at the Kundli border point between Delhi and Haryana was found partly nibbled at by rats at a Sonipat hospital where it was kept for autopsy. The elderly person, Rajendra Saroha, had died on Wednesday at a village near the site of agitation. A post mortem examination to identify the cause of his death was scheduled for Thursday. A PTI report today said he had suffered a heart attack.