National Human Rights Commission today issued notice to Assam police and sought report in connection of an alleged case of custodial torture in Jorhat district.
The notice was issued after the Commission took suo motu cognisance of a media report that a youth, Siddharth Kaushik Dutta, was subjected to false implication and custodial torture in one of the police stations in Jorhat district of Assam, according to an NHRC statement here.
The report said no action had been taken on two separate complaints made by the mother of the victim against the police and other accused.
The Commission has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victim and has issued notice to the Director General of Police, Assam, calling for a report within two weeks.
According to the media report, the Officer-in-Charge of Pulibor Police Station in Jorhat picked up the victim from his house on the April 16 without any formal complaint against him.
He was later transferred to Jorhat Sadar Police Station. His torture continued till April 26 and when the victim got unconscious he was shifted to Dibrugarh Medical College for treatment.
