Kohima, November 4 (MExN): The Nagaland Law Students’ Federation (NLSF) today said that the assault on a minor by a police officer in Kohima on October 24 was totally “outrageous and unacceptable” bereft of any humane empathy and a flagrant contravention of code of conduct and procedure.
“Juvenile are not training field for interrogation,” NLSF categorically stated condemning the incident in a press note issued though its General Secretary Medochütuo Kiewhou and Information & Publicity Secretary Roland Zeliang.
“You cannot subject minors to such cruelty and brutality as provided by the law, let alone his innocence,” it said adding that while juveniles, by law are to be produced to juvenile justice board within the “nearest time possible,” the minor was confined in locked-up and assaulted.
The act of the police officer is total violation of Juvenile Justice Act resulting in “total annihilation of his rights,” NLSF further argued.
In this regard, the Federation said that the serious case must be treated “expeditiously and precisely in the doorsteps of justice.” “We have a firm belief that the erring officer is under disciplinary action along with all officers who acted collaterally on the unqualified act,” it added.
Further maintaining that the case, without doubt, must be under the scanner of Human Rights Commission, the NLSF said it will pursue the case from the frontline.
“The NLSF has firmly adopted to pursue the case rigorously till justice is delivered to the victim and the erring officer punished as per the code of law,” it declared.
