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Date: Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Naini jail inmate hangs self
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Cc: Rohit Kumar <pvchr.deo@gmail.com>

To,

The Chairperson

National Human Rights Commission

New Delhi

Dear Sir,

I want to bring in your kind attention to the news published in Times of India on 1st April, 2014 regarding Naini jail inmate hangs self http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Allahabad/Naini-jail-inmate-hangs-self/articleshow/33063762.cms

Naini jail inmate hangs self

TNN | Apr 1, 2014, 11.36 AM IST

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ALLAHABAD: A 31-year-old man lodged at Naini Central Jail since August 2013 committed suicide on Monday morning by hanging himself from a pipeline inside the jail premises. 

The deceased has been identified as Jitendra Jaiswal, a resident of Nawabganj. Jail superintendent Ambrish Gaur told TOI that the Jaiswal had been sent behind bars under charges pertaining to the Dowry Prevention Act and section 304 of IPC. Jaiswal's co-inmates spotted him hanging from a pipeline with a towel and took him to the hospital on jail campus. 

He however died during treatment. No suicide note was recovered.Naini police said the deceased had married twice and had been charged with burning one of his wives and a minor to death. Police said though the exact reason behind the suicide was yet to be ascertained, frustration and stress may have led him to the extreme step as his bail plea was rejected by the high court a week ago.

Therefore it is kind request

1. To conduct an inquiry in this incident of custodial death under section 176(1)A Cr.PC by a Judicial Magistrate
2. To provide compensation to the victim's family.

3.   To ensure Videography of the Post-Mortem Report of the victim& the same is informed to NHRC.

Thanking You

Sincerely Yours

Rohit Kumar

Detention Watch Co-ordinator

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Date: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:24 AM
Subject: Woman prisoner hangs self in Udaipur jail bathroom
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: "Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi" <lenin@pvchr.asia>, <pvchr.adv@gmail.com>

To,

The Chairperson

National Human Rights Commission

New Delhi

Dear Sir,

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in Times of India on 9 February, 2014 regarding Woman prisoner hangs self in Udaipur jail bathroom http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2014-02-09/jaipur/47167859_1_woman-prisoner-jail-bathroom-jail-guards

Woman prisoner hangs self in Udaipur jail bathroom

TNN Feb 9, 2014, 02.44AM IST

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UDAIPUR: An undertrial woman prisoner was found hanging in one of the bathrooms at the central jail here in the wee hours of Saturday. Mangibai (44) was found hanging from a supporting rod in the jail bathroom at 4.15 am, police said. Mental stress was assumed to be the reason behind the suicide, according to other inmates.

The incident came to light when an inmate peeped through the grills after Mangibai failed to respond to calls. Jail guards were informed who rushed to the spot and pulled down the body.

The prisoner had used a long piece of woollen shawl she was wearing to hang herself. While the bathroom roof just had an average height, having built with caution to prevent such incidents in prison, the neck bones were found fractured during postmortem probably caused by the jerk when she jumped to hang herself to death.

The deceased was a murder accused and was lodged in jail for past 8 months under Section 302 and 204 of the IPC, said Kailash Trivedi, jail superintendent. Mangibai was a native of Suvato ka Guda, a village near Saira in the district and she was facing trial for murdering a man from her village. She was undergoing huge mental stress presumably due to the monotonous jail schedule and the long trial proceedings.

The prisoner's body was sent for postmortem in the morning and after completion of formalities, handed over to her family members. A judicial magistrate is investigating the case.

Therefore it is kind request

1. To conduct an inquiry in this incident of custodial death under section 176(1)A Cr.PC by a Judicial Magistrate
2. To provide compensation to the victim's family.

3.   To ensure Videography of the Post-Mortem Report of the victim& the same is informed to NHRC.

Thanking You

Sincerely Yours

Rohit Kumar

Detention Watch Co-ordinator

National Consultation on Women Rights

Dear Friends,

Greetings from PVCHR/JMN

National Alliance on Testimonial Therapy (NATT) in collaboration with the Dignity: Danish Institute Against Torture is organizing National Consultation for preparing the Alternate Reports to the IV and V Periodic Report for its review by the CEDAW Committee in July 2014. It is a part of a year for Stayagarha for Neo dalit.

http://www.pvchr.net/2012/03/women-folk-school-on-neo-dalit.html 

Therefore, NATT is inviting you to join in this National Consultation at Patna, Bihar on 12th April, and give your specific inputs and any other special concerns to the preparation of the IV and V Alternate Report. 

We are looking forward to highly engaging discussion and enthusiastic inputs from all of you. We will be able to provide Sleeper class Train or Bus fare. The detail of the venue and logistics will be shared shortly. 

• Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women by PVCHRhttp://www.pvchr.net/2013/04/submission-to-un-special-rapporteur-on_22.html
• Submission by PVCHR regarding India for the Universal Periodic Review: State of Impunity http://www.pvchr.net/2011/11/submission-by-pvchr-regarding-india-for.html

Please confirm your esteem presence at email pvchr.india@gmail.com

Thanking You
On the behalf of NATT secretariat 
Prof. Shahina Rizvi, Bindu Singh, Shruti Nagvanshi, Sandhya Jha, Sakuntala, Sandhya, Shirin Shabana Khan, Chhaya Kumari and Lenin Raghuvanshi


Event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/665217143542453/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular

Fighting caste discrimination

http://www.informed-giving.org/story_details.php?id=Mjgz

Caste is one of India’s most enduring institutions and still retains its hold on Indian society. For those not fortunate to be born in the higher echelons of the caste hierarchy, life can be difficult indeed. Despite government efforts, caste discrimination is still rife, and low-caste Indians have to bear the brunt of poverty, illiteracy and violence. Lenin Raghuvanshi is in the forefront of the fight against caste discrimination, to ensure a just and equal society.

Raghuvanshi is the founder of the People’s Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), which fights for the rights of marginalized people in several North Indian states, especially in the area around Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi was born in an upper caste family, which he describes as “feudal”. He got a bachelor’s degree in ayurveda, modern medicine and surgery from the State Ayurvedic College in Haridwar. But the social inequities that faced India made him take up the cause of bonded labourers. This is when he noticed that not a single bonded labourer came from the upper caste, and realised that the problem was essentially caste.

In 1996, Raghuvanshi founded PVCHR to fight the caste system. He works to ensure basic rights to vulnerable groups like children, women, Dalits, tribes and minorities. Raghuvanshi and his team works at the grassroots level in Varanasi and around 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh and five other states. PVCHR works to eliminate situations that give rise to the exploitation of vulnerable and marginalized groups, and to start a movement for a people-friendly movement (Jan Mitra Samaj) through an inter-institutional approach.

Raghuvanshi has his task cut out for him since the lot of Dalits and other oppressed minorities continues to be dismal. “In the past, if anyone from the lower caste breached the unwritten law of caste hierarchy, the person would be beaten up in public. Now the person will be shot dead and the village burnt down and the women raped. A bridegroom riding a horse during his wedding, an enterprising peasant digging a well on his land, if a boy falls in love with a girl – do you kill them? Yet, if they belong to the Dalit caste they are killed. We still say that there is rule of law in India,” he said in his acceptance speech while receiving the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.

He is also concerned about the plight of women and children in this country. “India is still very much a patriarchal and caste-based society with gender discrimination. The destructive effects of gender discrimination, patriarchal oppression and the semi-feudal society so prevalent in 21st century India are manifest in our 55 million children, employed at times in subhuman conditions,” he says in a newspaper interview.

Raghuvanshi received the Gwangju Human Rights Award in 2007. He was made an Ashoka Fellow in 2001 and was presented the International Human Rights Prize of the City of Weimar (Germany) in 2010. Raghuvanshi once said to a newspaper that caste discrimination is so rife in Bundelkhand that a Dalit has to take off his chappal and hold it in his hand if a person belonging to the Thakur caste approaches. It’s not something that would make us proud.

How can you Help?

Caste approaches is not something that would make us proud 

Contact details of the NGO/Institution

Name :  Lenin Raghuvanshi 

Email ID :  lenin@pvchr.asia

Contact Number :  9935599333

Website :  http://www.pvchr.asia

Address :  PVCHR Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 

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Date: Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Subject: Woman detained at police station during night
To: covdnhrc <covdnhrc@nic.in>, jrlawnhrc <jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in>
Cc: "Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi" <lenin@pvchr.asia>

To,

The Chairperson

National Human Rights Commission

New Delhi

 

Dear Sir,

 

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in Times of India on dated 14 December, 2013 regarding Woman detained at police station during night http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Woman-detained-at-police-station-during-night/articleshow/27316962.cms?intenttarget=no

 

Therefore it is a kind request please take appropriate action at earliest.

 

Thanking You

 

Sincerely Yours

 

Lenin Raghuvanshi

Secretary General

PVCHR

Woman detained at police station during night

TNN | Dec 14, 2013, 03.11 AM IST

KOCHI: The Kerala high court on Friday ordered that an FIR should be registered against a sub inspector of police for illegally detaining a woman at the police station all night and beating her.

A division bench comprising justices Antony Dominic and A V Ramakrishna Pillai ordered registering an FIR against Aranmula sub inspector Vinod Kumar after a woman produced before the court in a habeas corpus case informed the court that she was detained at the police station during night and slapped by the sub inspector.

The woman was produced at the high court by police on Friday morning as per the court's interim order on a habeas corpus petition filed by her mother. The mother's petition had said her daughter, who got married recently, had gone missing after she went with her husband to his brother's house at Palakkad on October 9.

Based on the court's interim order, the couple was located by police near Aranmula and was presented before the court on Friday morning.

During the hearing, the woman told the court about her plight and the court directed the police officer in charge of high court's security to come to the court along with a woman police constable. The police team was asked to record the woman's statement about the ill-treatment by the SI in writing. When the court commenced hearing in the afternoon, the police team submitted the recorded statement to the court.

After perusing the statement, the court said it specified non-bailable offences committed by the sub inspector. The court then issued an order to Pathanamthitta superintendent of police to register a case against the SI and asked the director general of police to provide an explanation regarding the incident.

According to section 160 of Criminal Procedure Code, no police officer should summon a woman to a police station as a witness. Police should record the statement of women witnesses at the place where they reside.

Even if a woman is accused of a crime and is to be arrested, it should be avoided between sunset and sunrise, according to guidelines on arrest issued by National Human Rights Commission.

 

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Date: Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:52 AM
Subject: Nearly 2,000 kids in jail with mothers, says NCRB
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Cc: "Dr. Lenin Raghuvanshi" <lenin@pvchr.asia>

To,

The Chairperson

National Human Rights Commission

New Delhi

 

Dear Sir,

 

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in Indian Express on 3rd October, 2013 regarding Nearly 2,000 kids in jail with mothers, says NCRB
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/nearly-2000-kids-in-jail-with-mothers-says-ncrb/1177444/

Nearly 2,000 kids in jail with mothers, says NCRB

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Prisons across the country were also home last year to nearly 2,000 children below the age of six years who were forced to live there with their mothers, the National Crime Records Bureau has found.

Although Supreme Court guidelines say they should be kept away from the barracks where their mothers are lodged, officials said it has not always been practical to do so.

The 2012 data compiled by the NCRB from 1,394 prisons in the country also shows that 1.2 per cent of inmates were suffering from mental illnesses.

The data shows 1,813 children were living with their mothers in prisons, with jails in Uttar Pradesh topping the list with 431, followed by West Bengal (220), Madhya Pradesh (163), Bihar (151) and Jharkhand (132).

"There are strict SC guidelines on how to deal with children of women inmates, both undertrials and convicts. We try not to keep the children with their mothers in the barracks but sometimes it is not possible as they are too small to be left alone," said IG (prisons), West Bengal, Ranvir Kumar.

"We then show some leniency and allow them in prisons at nights. We have to be considerate when it comes to children who are as young as an infant. West Bengal has a higher number as most of these women are from Bangladesh and have been arrested under the Foreigners Act for illegally crossing into the country," he said.

The NCRB also found that as many as 44,470 inmates had mental illnesses, with Orissa accounting for 496 cases, followed by Andhra Pradesh (443), Karnataka (383), Haryana (362) and Kerala (296).

"Although the jail manual says that mentally ill prisoners should be sent to asylums, it is not possible all the time as the degree of illness also varies. We try to keep such prisoners in separate wards and have convicts man their wards so that they do not inflict any injury on themselves. They are treated at the jail hospitals and there have been instances where such prisoners have recovered also," said a senior jail official.

Therefore it is kind request please take appropriate action
Thanking You
Sincerely Yours
Shruti Nagvanshi
Managing Trustee
&
Shirin Shabana Khan
Senior Manager
Peoples' Vigilance Committee on Human Rights
Mobile No. +91-9935599330

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Date: Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:44 PM
Subject: Dasna jailer brands inmate
To: covdnhrc@nic.in
Cc: jrlawnhrc@hub.nic.in, pvchr.adv@gmail.com

To,

The Chairperson

National Human Rights Commission

New Delhi

Dear Sir, 

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in Times of India on12December,2013regardingDasna jailer brands inmate http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/noida/Dasna-jailer-brands-inmate/articleshow/27232425.cms

Therefore it is a kind request please take appropriate earliest. 

Thanking You

Sincerely Yours

Rohit Kumar

Detention Watch Co-ordinator

PVCHR

Dasna jailer brands inmate

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The inmate has alleged that the deputy jailer brutally beat him up for not giving "extortion money" after which he branded his name on his back.

GHAZIABAD: A case of inhumanity has been reported from Dasna Jail with a deputy jailer being accused of branding his initials with a hot iron rod on the back of an inmate. The victim, Karan alias Chottu, a resident of Karawal Nagar in northeast Delhi, was lodged in jail two months ago on charges of murder. On Tuesday, when he was produced before the city court, he narrated his nightmarish experience.

The deputy jailer, Rajesh Kumar Pandey, allegedly brutally thrashed the inmate after which he reportedly sustained a fracture in the neck and leg. The victim's wife had gone to the jail to meet her husband last Friday and Sunday, but jail authorities did not allow her to meet him.

The wife has requested the court to conduct the inmate's medical examination to determine the atrocities done to him. The court has summoned Dasna jail superintendent for the next court hearing on December 12 to reply on the issue.

The inmate has alleged that the deputy jailer brutally beat him up for not giving "extortion money" after which he branded his name on his back. Counsel for Karan, S P Singh, on Tuesday moved an application in the court seeking strict action against Pandey. Singh has alleged in his application that Pandey had allegedly demanded Rs 60,000 from his client and forcefully extracted Rs 10,000 from his pocket on December 3.

When Karan pleaded that he could not give such big amount to him, Pandey threatened that if he failed to give Rs 50,000, he would face dire consequences. On December 4, Pandey, along with three other people, started beating him up. On December 5, Pandey beat Karan again and allegedly branded "RKP" on his back," the court application cited.