NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report that a 17-year-old boy was tortured in police custody at the Gandhigram Police Station in Gujarat’s Rajkot district.
The incident came to light more than a month later, on October 6, after a video of the torture surfaced on social media.
According to the press report, carried on October 7, in the video, a police officer can be seen pulling hair from the boy’s scalp while other officials were laughing.
The boy was taken into custody on the night of September 1 in connection with a stabbing incident that had occurred a day earlier. The minor and his associates were detained and later presented before a juvenile court, which remanded him to a juvenile detention centre.