A relative of a person arrested in connection with communal violence that broke out in Haryana’s Nuh district earlier this year has alleged that seven Muslim inmates were assaulted by jail staff on December 11, reported The Indian Express.
The relative has moved an application before the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking action against the police, who have said that the allegations are baseless.
On July 31, a clash had broken out between Hindus and Muslims in Nuh during the Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra, a religious procession organised by the Bajrang Dal and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. The violence soon spread beyond Nuh, with neighbouring the Gurugram district, in particular, witnessing widespread arson and mob attacks on Muslim homes and shops.
One of the Muslim men arrested in connection with the violence is Shokeen, whose father Khurshid said that when he visited him in prison on December 13 and found him in a “severely injured state”.
In an application to the court, Khurshid said that when he asked Shokeen about his condition, he said that four to five police officers beat him and other inmates, according to The Indian Express.
“This was captured by the jail’s CCTV cameras, which also revealed that the prison’s STD facility was shut down,” the application said. “The staff forced Shokeen and other inmates into the prison’s flour mill where they were tortured, and were not provided any medical attention.”
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