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Mehbooba concerned over thrashing of inmates in Tihar, asks Home Sec to intervene

Expressing her concern over the reports of Kashmiri inmates beaten harassed and manhandled, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday spoke to the Union Home secretary Rajiv Gauba and asked him to intervene in the matter.

The Union Home Secretary assured the Chief Minister of a thorough probe into the incident and punishing the culprits for having violated the jail manual.

The Union Home Secretary assured the Chief Minister of a thorough probe into the incident and punishing the culprits for having violated the jail manual.

Violation of fundamental, human and legal rights of prisoners, who have alleged they were subjected to severe physical torture at the Tihar Jail on Monday came under the Delhi High Court’s scanner as it ordered an enquiry into the incident.

The high court called the attack on inmates as “very disturbing”.

“We need to take a call. It (the incident) is completely unjustifiable. If this is the situation in Delhi, what about other places,” a bench of acting-Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar remarked.

It said that the issue was “extremely serious” and required a “serious probe”, before an intervention by this court.

It appointed a three-member fact-finding committee, headed by a district judge of a trial court, to enquire into the incident, in which 18 inmates were allegedly beaten up by the jail staff, and submit their report before it.

The high court was hearing a PIL by an advocate Chinmay Kanojia, who has alleged that his client Shahid Yusuf, currently being investigated by the National Investigation Agency and undergoing trial, was beaten up without any reason by the Tihar Jail staff.

 

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