PHRO received a complaint from Patiala to the effect that Paramjit Kaur (wife of Gursewak Singh a resident of Ladpur) had been criminally assaulted by three officials of Amloh police station. In a representation to the SSP Patiala on March 19 she stated that she and her husband were picked up by Amloh police on February 11 last apprehending his husband’s involvement in some criminal case While her husband was kept in the lock-up two constables took her to the office of the SHO where they allegedly raped her. She has claimed that she brought the incident to the notice of the Judicial Magistrate in whose court she was: produced at Fatehgarh Sahib on February 16.
The suspensions arrests and registration of criminal cases against the vigilante groups police “Cats” and security forces personnel not with-standing them are rarely punished. Nor the administration is interested in doing so. There do exist legal safeguards for the victims on paper but these are never applied in practice: Parents or next of kin of the victims have been moving from pillar to post to know the whereabouts of their wards but generally to no avail.
Article extracted from this publication >> September 6, 1991
