Plea for compensation for death due to police torture

CHANDIGARH: The plea for paying appropriate compensation to the family of Mohan Lal a resident of village Mahal in district, Amritsar who died due to torture by Jammu police last year, has been made in the application filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on behalf of the affected family by human rights activist Kirpal Singh Randhawa of Amritsar.
Randhawa has also challenged the veracity of the post mortem report sent in by Jammu police as also the report of the magisterial inquiry into the death of Mohan Lal who alongwith six other young persons had been taken away by the Jammu police suspecting them to belong to the Kale Kachhewale gang indulging in robberies etc.
It has been pointed out by the petitioner that the post mortem conducted by doctors at Amritsar which videotaped too, was after the body had been brought to the village, revealed 40 injuries besides marks of electric shocks confirming the extent of torture he had been subjected to.
This was in sharp contrast to mere 16 injuries indicated in the report of post mortem sent in by Jammu police and which was the basis for the magisterial inquiry.
The matter which was listed before the division bench of the Chief Justice Binod Kumar Roy and Justice Surya Kant has been adjourned as it could not be taken up on Monday.