House panel to probe torture claims of farm, labour activists
Labour rights activist Shiv Kumar undergoes checkup at PGIMER
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab assembly on Friday constituted a House committee to probe the torture allegations by farm activists who were jailed during the ongoing agitation against the Centre’s three farm laws.
Speaker Rana KP Singh constituted the House panel after chief minister Amarinder Singh referred the demand of Aam Aadmi Party member Kanwar Sandhu to him.
Sandhu made the demand after Amarinder concluded his speech in response to the discussion on the motion of thanks to governor VP Singh Badnore’s address in the Vidhan Sabha.
Sandhu said labour activist Nodeep Kaur and her associate Shiv Kumar besides farmer activists have alleged torture in jails so a panel should be constituted to probe the matter. The CM referred the demand to the speaker, who announced formation of the panel.
CHANDIGARH: Labour rights activist Shiv Kumar underwent a medical check-up at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, on Friday a day after he was released from prison after a local court in Sonepat granted him bail.
He underwent an X-ray scan at the trauma centre of the institute and he was also seen by the doctors at the institute’s psychiatry department. He had sustained injuries during the alleged torture in the Haryana Police custody.
Kumar was booked under Sections 148, 149, 186, 332, 353, 384, 379-B, and 307 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), and
was arrested on January 23.
On February 19, the HC had ordered to conduct a medical examination of Kumar after
hearing a petition filed by his father Rajbir Singh alleging police torture and brutality with Kumar by Sonepat police.