Anti-CAA protests: Allahabad HC seeks U.P. reply on alleged torture, detention of minors
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A PIL petition was filed on the premise of a report primarily based on fact-finding investigations carried out by taking part organisations between January 10 and 24 in Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Firozabad districts
The Allahabad High Court has sought the Uttar Pradesh authorities’ reply on a petition alleging unlawful detention, torture and criminalisation of juveniles in the course of the protests towards the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) final December.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Siddhartha Varma directed the State authorities to file all particulars regarding each district of Uttar Pradesh with regard to the appliance of the provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.
The court docket was listening to a public curiosity litigation petition by an NGO, Haq-Centre For Child Rights, filed on the premise of a fact-finding report printed in January titled “Brutalising Innocence: Detention, Torture and Criminalisation of Minors by U.P. Police to quell anti-CAA protests.”
The report was primarily based on fact-finding investigations carried out by taking part organisations between January 10 and 24 in Bijnor, Muzaffarnagar and Firozabad districts and “verified media accounts” wanting into the alleged detention, torture, and criminalisation of minors in Uttar Pradesh.
“It contains documentary evidence of nature of violence, the methods of custodial torture and intimidation, and post-release targeting by law enforcement agencies and the overall effects in individual cases and its patterns across the State of Uttar Pradesh,” learn the report.
Close to 41 minors have been detained and subjected to custodial torture, mentioned the report. Of these, 22 minors have been detained and tortured in Bijnor and 14 minors in Muzaffarnagar. Of the latter, FIRs have been filed towards 4 minors who have been launched after 12 days of detention, the report added.
The High Court listed the matter for December 14.
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