Image Source : ANI Activist Nodeep Kaur will get bail.
In a serious aid to labour rights activist Nodeep Kaur, who was arrested in Haryana on legal prices in the course of the farmers’ agitation, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday granted her bail. Justice Avneesh Jhingan handed the order on her bail petition.
In the petition, she mentioned she was falsely implicated underneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code for try and homicide, assault and detering a public servant from discharge of his responsibility.
She mentioned she was “targeted and falsely implicated” within the case as she was producing assist for the farmer protest in opposition to the Centre’s farm legal guidelines.
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Even British Labour Party MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi had expressed concern over Nodeep Kaur’s arrest, saying the abuse of peaceable protest activists, particularly ladies, is an affront to democracy and civilised society.
“Alarmed to learn of sexual assault and torture allegations in police custody of Punjabi trade unionist Nodeep Kaur, who after four weeks hasn’t even been granted bail,” Dhesi had tweeted. Nodeep Kaur, 23, was arrested on January 12 in the course of the farmers’ protest at Kundli in Haryana.
Nodeep’s case got here to the fore as US Vice President Kamala Harris’ niece Meena Harris claimed in a tweet that she was “tortured and sexually assaulted” in police custody. However, the police had mentioned she was dealing with severe legal instances.
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