AMRITSAR: Have the police not uploaded three FIR’s registered against union activist Nodeep Kaur, currently lodged in Karnal Jail, on its official website?
Navkiran Singh, a senior advocate and member of recently constituted Advocate for Farmers, a group comprising of around 300 lawyers from across the nation, told TOI on Thursday that he had launched a campaign for uploading three FIR’s registered against Nodeep Kaur on the official website of police.
"Police have registered three criminal cases against Nodeep Kaur but the amazing part is that none of the three FIRs has been uploaded on the official website of police which shows the bias against her", alleged he adding that refusing to upload FIR’s on the official website means she was being denied her right.
Navkiran said he was daily coordinating with the lawyers for free legal aid to the victims who were behind the bars and ensure that they were not tortured and get early bail.
Meanwhile advocate Neena Singh, a member of Delhi based Sikh Legal Aid, informed that she had written to National Commission for Women, chief ministers of Punjab and Haryana, and chief justice of India urging their intervention for the early release of Nodeep Kaur and seeking departmental action against the male police officers allegedly responsible for the brutal assault on her.
Advocate Neena alleged that Nodeep Kaur, 23, a young activist was publicly beaten up by male police officers at Kundli border and arrested on January 12, 2021 while she was protesting against injustice on workers who had been denied their wages. She had received injuries on her body.
"If glamourous film actresses have the right to openly speak up on Twitter and other social media platforms and use derogatory language spreading hatred and branding people and lady film producers can make vulgar films and still call themselves as 'daughters of this great nation' and are accepted by the public as liberal and advanced women, why is a lady activist, hailing from a poor family and speaking up for legitimate wages of dalit workers, be subjected to torture and implicated by the police,” she wrote to the chief ministers and chief justice of India.