Overview

• The National Human Rights Commission took suo motu cognisance and issued a notice directing the Punjab DGP to file a detailed report within two weeks.
• The commission said the incident, if true, raises serious human rights concerns and asked that the report cover the probe’s status and the journalist’s health.
• Police earlier identified and suspended sub-inspectors Surjit and Mandeep Singh of the 5th Battalion of Punjab Police Commandos posted in Bathinda.
• Footage shows two officers, one in uniform and one in plain clothes, dragging, punching and kicking the reporter on a busy Batala street, leaving him motionless.
• Officials said the officers were deployed for Independence Day law-and-order duty in Batala, and local reports say the journalist had questioned their presence before the attack.