Chandigarh, September 7: Taking a suo moto cognizance of a news item appearing in a vernacular daily depicting the atrocities allegedly committed by Punjab Police lady constable and home guards on a Punjab-based woman, the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) has called for a report of the state government in the Home Department through ADGP/IVC-cum-Human Rights, Punjab, Chandigarh.

It was alleged that in the last week of August, at Kotwali police station in Bathinda, a woman was first stripped and then mercilessly beaten by the lady police, home guards, a woman from the mohalla of the victim.

As a fallout of the incident, the victim had to be hospitalised. The SSP, Bathinda, has entrusted the enquiry in this matter to the SHO of that very police station. Bhagwan, the husband of the victim (Shakuntala), said that on August 21, 2006 his wife was dragged by her hair to the police gypsy, thrown therein and taken to the police station by lady constable Balwinder Kaur and her two accomplices.