HC notice to police on HCP to produce detenu in court

: The Madras High Court has issued notice to top police officials on a Habeas Corpus Petition, seeking to produce in court a detenu who has allegedly been kept in solitary confinment in the central prison at Salem.
The division bench, before which the petition filed by the Centre for Protection of Civil Rights(Tamil Nadu) came up, issued notice to the Deputy Superintendent of Police Q Branch CID and Superintendent of Central Prisons, Salem and directed them to file the counter within two weeks.
Petitioner G Haribabu, state committee member of the forum, submitted that he is the friend of Palanivel 32) who he said has been kept under solitary confinement in the prison.

He said Palanivel was arrested and remanded to five days judicial custody on October 2 2016 and confined in the prison. He was covered with four blankets, his eyes were tied and he was forcibly beaten by Q branch police and around 82 to 100 signatures were obtained from him.
Haribabu alleged that after the custody period, the Prison Superintendent had forcibly and inhumanly searched him after he was stripped and that prison officials attacked him.
Palanivel was also not provided proper food and basic needs and his brother, who was also confined in the same prison, was also not allowed to meet him.

Haribabu said he went to the prison on Oct 14 to meet Palanivel and apprehended danger to his life and that the freedom of life with dignity is affected.
Hence he prayed for a direction from the Court to the authorities concerned to produce Palanivel before it.