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FIR, the Enquiry Officer concluded that the Investigating Officer of Case No.
280/13, Sub-Inspector Rafiq Parvej and SHO, P.S. Nai Mandi may have picked
up Maujvir Singh, and kept him in police custody to pressurize for the arrest
of her son Nitin in Case No. 392/411, but, no entry in this regard was made in
the GD of P.S. Nai Mandi. Hence, Inspector Vinod Sirohi, SHO, P.S. Nai Mandi and
Sub-Inspector Rafiq Parvej, Investigating Officer of Case No. 280/13 were held
responsible for keeping the complainant’s husband in police custody illegally.
4.34 The Commission on scrutiny of the police report observed that the
complainant’s husband Maujvir Singh was picked up by the police of P.S. Nai
Mandi on 22/23 April 2013 and kept in police custody illegally for 6 days
for which Inspector Vinod Sirohi and SI Rafiq Parvej have been found to be
responsible and that the human rights of the complainant’s husband were
violated by the action of the then Inspector Vinod Sirohi and SI Rafiq Parvej.
Therefore, the Chief Secretary to the Government of Uttar Pradesh was directed
to show cause as to why a monetary compensation of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees
Twenty Five Thousand only) should not be recommended to be paid to the victim
Maujvir. In response, the Joint Secretary, Home (Human Rights) Department,
Government of Uttar Pradesh vide communication received on 19 May 2016
submitted that an amount of Rs. 25,000/- had been paid to victim Maujvir Singh
on 18 April 2016. As the proof of payment was annexed, the Commission closed
the case with the directions that the Inspector General of Police, Meerut Zone,
Uttar Pradesh and the Joint Secretary, Home (HR) Department, Government
of Uttar Pradesh shall see that the departmental proceedings initiated against
the Inspector Vinod Sirohi and Sub Inspector Rafique Parvez Khan of Muzaffar
Nagar District Police are concluded expeditiously.
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