Chandigarh, September 29
A Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the Punjab government, the DGP and others on a PIL seeking strict action against the Punjab Police personnel involved in the molestation of girls during a protest by students of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University at Ludhiana on September 21.
A petition in this regard was filed by World Human Rights Protection Council through its president Mr Ranjan Lakhanpal, praying that a case be registered against the cops involved in the matter and investigation be handed over to the CBI. The Bench, comprising Mr Justice S.S. Nijjar and Mr Justice S.S. Saron, today directed the Punjab DGP and others to file their replies to the petition. Hearing will resume on October 10
Yesterday, Mr Justice Hemant Gupta had taken serious note of such reports. In his note, Justice Gupta maintained that the photograph clearly showed that the woman protester was not controlled by the uniformed force in a manner prescribed under the law. “Instead, it shows the police blatantly violating the law while throwing all niceties of the civilised society to the wind,” he wrote.
He added in his note, “Treating the female citizen of the country in the 21st century in such vulgar and barbaric manner, which is not only condemnable but shakes the conscience, showed that a person with sick and perverted mind had managed to enter the enforcement agency, which is not only dangerous to the civilised society but the public at large will lose faith in the police force if such kind of person remained in the enforcement agency.”
