A Rohingya couple jailed at the Hiranagar detention center in Jammu was brought handcuffed for the last rites of their child who died in a refugee detention centre near Jammu.
A video of the handcuffed parents at the burial site has been widely shared on social media.
The 43-day-old baby died at a refugee “holding centre” where clashes broke out between inmates and police earlier this week, NDTV reported.
Several people, including three policemen and Rohingyas, were reportedly injured during clashes.
On Thursday, the baby’s body was handed over to relatives at a Rohingya settlement in Jammu
The parents were seen in handcuffs when they were being brought at the burial site and also when the body was handed over to relatives in Narwal in Jammu for last rites, showed two videos.
Jail authorities have denied that the baby died in clashes. According to Koushal Kumar, superintendent of Kathua district jail, who is also in-charge of the holding centre, the baby was suffering from some ailment and died two days after the incident at the detention centre
Police have filed an FIR against Rohingyas allegedly involved in stone pelting at Hiranagar sub-jail – designated as the holding centre for Rohingyas.
271 Rohingyas, among them 144 women and children are detained at the holding centre.
Clashes broke out after Rohingyas, who held multiple hunger strike protests in the holding centre, demanded their release and deportation to their native country Myanmar.
The police resorted to lathicharge and resorted tear-gas shelling as a control measure.