Nodeep Kaur, Labour Rights Activist in her bail plea has claimed that she was severely beaten up at a police station after her arrest by the Sonipat police.
She was arrested on January 12 in Sonipat Haryana.
The 23-year-old activist from Punjab’s Muktsar district has also claimed that her medical examination was not conducted in violation of section 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Currently she is lodged in Karnal jail in Haryana.
On Monday, Punjab and Haryana High Court had adjourned the hearing on her bail plea and posted the matter for February 24.
In the bail plea filed through her counsels Arshdeep Singh Cheema and Harinder Deep Singh Bains, she stated that she was falsely charged as accused in an FIR lodged under various sections, including 307 (attempt to murder) of the IPC.
In her petition, she claimed that she was targeted and falsely implicated in the case as she was successful in generating massive support for the ongoing farmer movement against the Centre’s three new farm laws.
The plea alleged that the mobilization of local laborers in support of farmers annoyed the administration and a plan was devised to stifle the protest.
The bail plea stated that on January 12, the petitioner and MAS members marched towards a factory for demanding payment of pending wages of some workers.
The high court was informed that they were manhandled by a group formed by the Kundli Industrial Area, an association of industrial owners.
According to the plea, a team from Kundli police station led by the station house officer reached there and immediately on their arrival, they grabbed the petitioner by her hair and dragged to the side.
It said this angered the protesters and the situation became worse when the police resorted to lathi charge on peaceful protesters. A scuffle ensued and the petitioner tried to pacify the situation but to no avail. She was taken to the police station where she was beaten, tortured in the absence of women police, the plea alleged.
Sonipat police officials said that a police team was attacked with sticks when they reached the site and some policemen sustained injuries in the incident.