CHANDIGARH: Punjab State Human Rights Commission has summoned a report from the commissioner of police, Jalandhar, on the alleged VIP treatment to Manjit Singh Rattu against whom criminal cases are registered at Panchkula and Jalandhar. Dalbir Kaur, the sister of Sarabjit Singh who is on death row in Pakistan in the ...

FATEHGARH SAHIB: The Punjab State Human Rights Commission on Friday sought a report on the nationality of Wasil Khan (43), who has served time and is lodged in the transit camp of an Amritsar jail. The PSHRC has asked the Chief Secretary, Amritsar Deputy Commissioner and DGP (Prisons) to submit the ...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab State Human Rights Commission took suo motu notice of the August 10 HT report, "Minor raped, but no arrests so far", and called for a report from the Jalandhar Commissioner of Police by September 24. The accused has not been arrested in the July 26 crime.

PATIALA: The mother of a 25-year-old deaf and mite woman has appealed to Punjab State Human Rights Commission and Deputy Commissioner, Patiala, for help to rescue the girl who, says, has been illegally detained for the past week. Dipinderjit Kaur, who is deaf and mute by birth, was wedded to Gurajaib ...

BATALA: Comrade Gurmeet Singh Bakhtpura, national president of Indian Federation of Trade Union, has disappeared from the local civil hospital where he was admitted on Monday after an assault. Bakhtpura, who was admitted to the hospital with injuries on his legs, had told media that he was assaulted by Batala police, ...

AMRITSAR: The Tarn Taran police, who five days ago booked a school principal on the charge of raping a teacher, have now discovered that the two had married in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Following the registration of the case, Sri Guru Angad Dev Study Circle School principal Kulwinder Singh ...

HOSHIARPUR: People have become more aware of their rights of late as is testified by the rise in number of complaints received by the Punjab State Human Rights Commission, its member Avinash Rai Khanna said on Sunday. Khanna, who was speaking at a function organized in his honour by Puran Swaraj ...

MOGA: Karam Singh of Kishanpura Kalan village, an octogenarian, has spent the past six months running between offices to know the whereabouts of his missing son and daughter-in-law. Repeated attempts to lodge a police complaint have come to nothing with the cops scaring him away each time. The two went missing ...