The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has asked the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) to submit an action-taken report (ATR) regarding the torture of a minority community victim, Hasinara Khatun, and kidnapping of her husband by some anti-socials in the Haladipadia slum under the Laxmisagar police station in the city.
The NHRC passed the direction based on a petition filed by civil society organisation Human Rights Watch secretary Sangita Swain.
In her petition, Swain alleged that a minority community woman Hasinara Khatun is being humiliated and severely tortured by local anti-socials, who are carrying out drug trade in the Haladipadia slum.
She also alleged that Khatun’s husband was kidnapped and her house was damaged by the drug mafia.
She further alleged that the drug trade was flourishing in the slum by engaging children.
The local police are framing innocent persons in false cases to shield the drug mafia.
Swain prayed the commission to take criminal action against the responsible police and anti-socials and trace her kidnapped husband, take steps to provide the land and house to the landless minority victim and compensate Rs10 lakhs immediately to save the life of the victim and provide free medical facilities.
In this regard the Odisha police HRPC Additional DG, Cuttack directed the Bhubaneswar DCP, for an ATR but till date no report has been received.