CPI(M) complains to NHRC on illegal detention of woman labourer by Puducherry police
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has complained to the National Human Rights Commission on the alleged custodial harassment meted out to a woman staff of a resort in Pudukuppam village in Puducherry.
CPI (M) secretary S. Ramachandran in his complaint to NHRC has stated that police officers in Thavalakuppam police station illegally detained and physically assaulted the woman staff after the general manager of the resort preferred a complaint of a missing ring of a guest in the hotel.
'On the night of May 11, the woman staff was summoned to the police station. She was beaten with a lathi compelling her to accept the theft. She was allowed to leave the station only around 1 a.m. the next day. She was again summoned, made to wait in the station till late in the night and was allowed to leave only by mid-night,' he said.
The party has appealed to the NHRC to initiate proceedings against the police officers responsible for the misconduct and unlawful activity.
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