A medical report has shown that Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan president Shiv Kumar , a co-accused in the cases registered against activist Node...
A medical report has shown that Mazdoor Adhikar Sangathan president Shiv Kumar, a co-accused in the cases registered against activist Nodeep Kaur, has eight injuries that are more than two weeks old, The Tribune reported on Wednesday. The report was prepared by a five-doctor board of the Government Medical College and Hospital and submitted to the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday.
Kumar, a 24-year-old Dalit activist, was arrested on January 16. The court had on February 19 directed the superintendent of Sonipat Jail to have Kumar examined at the Government Medical College and Hospital, after his father Rajbir alleged that the jailed activist was “subjected to police torture”, reported The Indian Express. The board examined Kumar on February 20.
Kumar showed signs of “post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms”, according to the medical report. “All injuries are more than two weeks old and were caused by blunt object/weapon,” the report showed. “There is fracture distal phalanx of the second digit of left hand, and fracture of base of metatarsal bone of right foot.”
The report also pointed to a possible fracture of sesamoid bone at two other places in the left navicular bone of a foot and right ulna bone of the right wrist.
The report, quoting Kumar, said that he was taken to old...
