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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Haryana<br />
Commission. 1<br />
In a State where the imbalance of sex<br />
ratio is 861 females <strong>for</strong> every 1000 males, 2<br />
buying of brides - the victims of<br />
trafficking, is a common practice.<br />
Panchayats across Haryana have been<br />
acting as extra-constitutional authorities to<br />
declare marriages of different gotras<br />
(clans) invalid with virtual impunity.<br />
While judicial interventions in a few cases<br />
provided relief to the victims, no action<br />
has been taken against such village council<br />
members.<br />
The National Commission <strong>for</strong><br />
Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes<br />
ranked Haryana as number two in 2003 <strong>for</strong><br />
atrocities against the Dalits. There has<br />
been little improvement of the situations<br />
of the Dalits.<br />
The State government of Haryana has<br />
taken little measures to rehabilitate the<br />
persons who were displaced by industrial<br />
projects in Panipat district.<br />
II. Atrocities by security <strong>for</strong>ces<br />
i. Arbitrary deprivation of the right to life<br />
The National <strong>Human</strong> <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Commission had registered 29 custodial<br />
deaths in 1999-2000, 24 in 2000-2001, 39<br />
in 2001-2002 and 47 in 2002-2003 in<br />
Haryana. 3<br />
In 2004, there were many <strong>report</strong>s of<br />
arbitrary deprivation of the right to life by<br />
Haryana Police.<br />
On the night of 25 February 2004,<br />
Kailash was taken into custody by the<br />
Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA)<br />
personnel on suspicion of possessing<br />
74<br />
charas, marijuana, and died in the police<br />
custody in Jind town. He was allegedly<br />
tortured till he became unconscious and<br />
was dumped nearby his residence. He was<br />
taken to the General Hospital of Jind<br />
where the doctors declared him dead. The<br />
police <strong>report</strong>edly registered a case under<br />
Section 302 of Indian Penal Code against<br />
Assistant Sub-Inspector, Mr Heera Lal,<br />
Head constable, Mr Jaipal and four other<br />
police officials. 4<br />
On the intervening night of 12 and 13<br />
June 2004, Sheo Chand, a resident of<br />
village Dulet was killed in the custody of<br />
the Bhuna police station in Fatehabad<br />
district. He was earlier handed over to the<br />
police after being tied with a rope by one<br />
Pawan and his father Satish. He was also<br />
beaten up following an altercation with the<br />
two after buying and consuming liquor<br />
from their shop. The shop allegedly did<br />
not have a licence but liquor was sold in<br />
connivance with the local police. The<br />
police took him to Bhuna Police Station<br />
and later moved him to the Community<br />
Health <strong>Centre</strong> at Bhuna at about 2 a.m. in<br />
the night in a serious condition. At 3 am,<br />
he died. On 13 June 2004, the police<br />
arrested the two shopkeepers who were<br />
remanded to judicial custody in Hisar jail<br />
<strong>for</strong> 14 days. A post-mortem of the body of<br />
the victim was <strong>report</strong>edly conducted on 13<br />
June 2004. On 14 June 2004, the Judicial<br />
Magistrate, Ms Ritu Y. K. Bahl remanded<br />
Sub-Inspector Umed Singh, who was also<br />
the Station House Officer (SHO) of Bhuna<br />
police station to 14-day judicial custody. 5<br />
In early July 2004, two policemen,