The Meghalaya Peoples Human Rights Council (MPHRC) has strongly condemned the alleged custodial torture of a youth, who was also accused of public obscenity and assault.
While it appreciates the department’s action of placing five cops under suspension, the MPHRC said it is convinced that police had perpetrated serious custodial violence, brutal or savage in nature on the 19- year old Getwin Jyrwa.
“This was a case of a gross violation of human rights of citizen resulting from barbaric acts of torture and the police personnel responsible for perpetrating various acts of torture should be without delay be punished accordingly,” MPHRC chairman Dino D.G. Dympep said.
“If there is any act committed by the official of the government in violation of the Human Rights then the Government is either directly or vicariously liable for the act committed by its agents on citizens and the principle of sovereign immunity cannot override the basic human rights assured to every citizen” said MPHRC.
Dympep referred to the Global Torture Index Report 2025 that placed India in the high risk category of torture by police and said, “The Government will have to bear in mind that it is the citizens who are entitled for human rights and not the accused personnel who fail to act as responsible public servant. A prompt, impartial and thorough investigation into the ongoing pattern of Police torture at Sohra police station must ensure a clear impartiality.”
