NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION 4.22 The Commission received a complaint dated 27.05.2014 from Shri. R.H. Bansal, Chief Editor, Human Rights Observer, Delhi regarding death of one Manoj Rana on 26.05.2014, in the police custody of PS Bindapur, Delhi. The complainant alleged that the victim was picked up from his house by five police personnel of PS Bindapur, Delhi and took him to Police Post, Matiala where he was subjected to inhuman treatment/ assaulted/tortured, due to which the condition of the victim became critical. He was taken to DDU Hospital, New Delhi, for treatment but he was declared “brought dead” by the doctors. 4.23 The Commission took cognizance of the matter on 03.06.2014 and obtained the requisite reports after protracted correspondence. The Commission perused the record on 25.01.2017 and observed that the police officials of Police Station Bindapur, New Delhi picked up the deceased from his house and took him to Police Station where he was /tortured and beaten up. Later his dead body was found in DDU Hospital, New Delhi which was left abandoned by unknown persons in muffled faces. The enquiry magistrate has concluded that the deceased had been beaten by police officials and there were as many as 20 injury marks on the body of the deceased. The enquiry magistrate concluded that the death of the deceased was unnatural and homicidal in nature. Moreover, a charge sheet had been filed against the accused police officials in the Court. 4.24 The Commission took note of the shocking state of affairs that indicated that the police officials were involved in a criminal act of beating, torturing and killing the victim without anybody’s knowledge. No civilized law allowed custodial cruelty. The police officials crossed all the limits of civility. The conduct of the said police officials amounted to the human rights violation of the deceased, especially the right to life of the victim. 4.25 The Commission, therefore issued a notice to the Chief Secretary Government of NCT of Delhi calling upon him to show-cause as to why monetary compensation of `  5,00,000/(Rupees Five Lakhs only) should not be recommended u/s 18(a)(i) of Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 to be paid to the next-of-kin of the deceased Manoj Rana for violation of his human rights. 4.26 Pursuant to the directions of the Commission, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Vigilance, Delhi submitted report dated 12.5.2017 which revealed that the accused police officials namely Ct. Bhoop Singh, Ct. Rajesh Solanki, Ct. Uttam, Ct. Rajesh, Ct. Sudhir and Ct. Arvind brought the victim to the old building of PS Bindapur (PP East Uttam Nagar). The deceased Manoj was subjected to torture to extract information about a gunshot fire incident and recovery of firearm and due to torture and beating he died. The police personnel took Manoj to DDU Hospital in Maruti Alto Car No. HR 19F 3741 of the accused Ct. Arvind Kumar and left his body abandoned. The report further revealed that after completion of investigation, charge sheet against the above named accused police personnel was filed before the Court on 22.8.2014. Annual Report 2017-2018 47