Karnataka State Human Rights Commission on 23 November ordered the Karnataka government to immediately pay compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to three persons from Tamil Nadu detained in connection with the Bangalore BJP office blast case. The commission took suo motu note of their plight and registered a case against the Bangalore police. The police had failed to link the thee — Peer Mohideen, 39; Saddam Hussein, 24; and Mohammed Hanif, 30 — to the low-intensity blast near the BJP office at Malleswaram on 17 April, 2013, and did not name them in the chargesheet filed in the case recently. SHRC member Chandrasekhar G Hungund reportedly said that the commission took note of the fact that the police were unable to produce any evidence despite keeping them in custody for months. “It is really unfortunate that these men were kept in custody for so long. So, the commission ordered a compensation to be paid to them immediately,” Hungund said. The three spent more than six months in prison, besides 30 days in police custody.
Rights Panel Orders Damages to 3 Arrested in Bangalore Blast Case
Karnataka State Human Rights Commission on 23 November ordered the Karnataka government to immediately pay compensation of Rs 2 lakh each to three persons from Tamil Nadu detained in connection with the Bangalore BJP office blast case. The commission took suo motu note of their plight and registered a case against the Bangalore police.
