Overview

• Dharmendra Singh Chauhan was shot near his home in Luhari village, Jhajjar district, during an evening walk and later died of his injuries in a Gurugram hospital.
• Villagers first took Chauhan to a nearby health centre, which referred him to a hospital in Gurugram where he succumbed to gunshot wounds.
• The NHRC took suo motu cognisance of media reports on May 27, describing the killing as a potential violation of the victim’s human rights.
• The notice to Haryana’s police chief demands a detailed account of the circumstances of Chauhan’s death and the current status of the probe.
• The commission’s intervention reflects its heightened scrutiny of rights abuses, following earlier notices on Ashoka University student deaths and a Tamil Nadu worker asphyxiation case.