Guwahati: The Assam Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has taken suo motu notice of the incident in Nagaon which took place on January 22 in which Nagaon police shot and injured a former student leader, Kirti Kamal Bora, and has ordered the Chief Secretary of Assam to show cause by February 28 why an amount of Rs 1.5 lakh should not be paid to the victim as interim relief under Clause (c) of Section-18 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993.
“Sources claimed that a team from the Anti-Narcotics Squad on last Saturday evening launched a search operation against drugs peddlers near Kachalukhuwa Tinali, and during the operation, police personnel in civil dress picked up a youth and caned him on the road,” the AHRC wrote in an order dated January 24.
Meanwhile, a former student leader arrived on the scene and inquired as to why the teenager had been thrashed and caned. An SI of police, Pradip Bonia, became enraged after being questioned and shot at his (Kirti’s) lower limbs, injuring him.”
“A bullet that was embedded in a lower limb of the student leader was medically retrieved by the doctor, however, another surgery was pending,” according to the AHRC. According to the AHRC, the incident “found a prima facie instance of human rights violation” and “it is thought essential to give notice to the Chief Secretary of Assam.”