Activist Nodeep Kaur claims she was told that Dalits 'can't rise high in society' by police while in custody, alleges she was beaten up before being taken to the police station.
Judiciary is responsible for ensuring our liberty, and habeas corpus is the usual route. But magistrates are acting as if the rule is ‘jail, and bail is above my pay grade’.
Nodeep Kaur was arrested on 12 January for allegedly gheraoing an industrial unit and demanding money from a company in Haryana’s Sonipat. Read the full text of the bail order here:
The medical report of labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur was submitted in the Punjab & Haryana HC, which will take up the matter of alleged police torture in April.
In her bail plea, the activist, arrested last month for allegedly extorting money from industrialists, had claimed to have been severely beaten up Haryana Police.
Kaur, who was arrested by Haryana Police last month, claims to have been severely beaten by police and that her medical examination was not conducted in 'utter violation' of law.
Nodeep comes from a family of vocal women activists associated with Left groups. She joined Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan soon after she got a job at a bulb factory in Kundli.
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