Sexual assault of workers in UP: NHRC issues notices to DM, SP

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued notices to the District Magistrate and Superintendent of Police of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, over reports of abduction and sexual assault of eight women workers and asked for a report within two weeks.

The NHRC has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a brick kiln owner, along with a labour contractor and three others, picked up the workers at a brick kiln in Dundai village of Uttar Pradesh's Rampur district on January 19 and kept the men and women in separate rooms of a building and, thereafter, sexually assaulted eight women.

They were released on the next day. The workers approached the police and filed a complaint with the Shahaj Nagar Police Station.

The NHRC has observed that the contents of the press report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights of the victim workers.