Jaipur : The State Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of the dying of an accused of raping a disabled minor at Dechu police station in Jodhpur. Along with this, the court docket requested Jodhpur Collector and Police Commissioner to get the matter investigated and submit a report back to the Commission. The Commission has additionally requested each the officers to inform whether or not any type of interim help has been supplied to the household of the deceased or not. The Commission gave this order whereas taking motion on the media stories revealed on this regard.
The Commission mentioned in its order that the dying of any accused in police custody is an unpardonable crime. It is the duty of the police that no bodily or psychological torture must be achieved to the accused taken in custody. The Commission mentioned that it is vitally regrettable that such information are being revealed on daily basis that the legs of the accused taken into custody are plastered or they’ve suffered severe accidents. Even in the present day, images of such damage accused are revealed in newspapers. It is gloomy that there is no such thing as a provision for video recording from the time the accused are arrested to presenting them within the court docket.
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From time to time the Supreme Court has additionally issued orders on this regard. At the identical time, it has additionally been included within the new felony legal guidelines. Citing a latest newspaper revealed from Dechu in Jodhpur, the Commission mentioned that the accused of rape there died within the police station. In this matter, DSP has been suspended and judicial inquiry has been ordered. The police stored the accused locked in a room with out arrest file as a substitute of a cell. Where he died in custody.
