Human Rights in Punjab

In 2004, fifty-nine Punjab police officials were found guilty of human rights violations (scroll to eigth article) in twenty-eight cases. A total of fourty-four complaints against police officials were received.

A.A. Sidiqui, Punjab’s Director-General of Police, said that the Punjab Police Headquarters received 17,000 complaints in all.

He said 6261 complaints were received from Punjab State Human Rights Commission, 376 from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and 46 from the National Human Rights Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes at Delhi.

Addressing a press conference this afternoon, he added that an Economic Offences Wing (EOW) was also set up at the headquarters last year for “dealing with the emerging economic offences”.

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