E/CN.4/1996/35/Add.1 page 60 information report, so the family filed a complaint with the superintendent of the Darjeeling police. One constable was reportedly suspended, but no arrests were made. 319. According to the Government, Hari and Bimal Biswakarma had taken a lift in a police jeep. An altercation had broken out owing to a misunderstanding on the part of the police driver, who had presumed that there was a warrant issued against Bimal and had started to question him. As a result, Hari had fallen from the speeding jeep and sustained injuries. She was taken to hospital immediately and died after a few moments. A case was registered on a complaint from Bimal Biswakarma and an investigation was under way. 320. By the same letter, the Special Rapporteur also communicated the following additional cases of alleged torture. 321. Rahul Bannerji and Abhijit Das, sports journalists, were reportedly dragged out of a news conference in Delhi on 1 July 1994 by members of the Punjab police, apparently because they had irritated the director-general of the Punjab police with questions they had posed to him. They were allegedly beaten and forced to lie on the floor at gunpoint in a van and then taken to Parliament Street police station, where they were allegedly beaten again. Abhijit Das sustained a fractured nose and Rahul Bannerji sustained multiple injuries as a result of the beatings. The director-general reportedly apologized to the journalists and the Home Minister ordered the commissioner of the Delhi police to investigate the incident. 322. The Government replied that preliminary inquiries had revealed that Rahul Bannerji and Abhijit Das had been manhandled during the news conference. Several charges, including criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing grievous hurt, had been registered. The trial was pending in the court of the metropolitan magistrate, New Delhi. 323. Bashir Ahmad Mir, a resident of Ladoo Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, detained on 13 February 1995 by paramilitary soldiers under accusation of membership of a rebel group, was allegedly taken to an interrogation centre, forced to stand in bare feet on the snow for six hours and subjected to electric shocks on sensitive parts of his body. He was also allegedly beaten with iron rods and bamboo sticks and forced to sit on a hot stove, causing him to lose consciousness. Two days later, after his feet had turned black and fluid was pouring from his toes, he was taken to the army hospital in Srinagar, where he was allegedly neglected by doctors. He was released from the military hospital on 10 April and admitted immediately to the Bone and Joint hospital, where he underwent amputation of both of his feet. A medical official at the hospital stated that his condition was consistent with the allegations of torture described above. 324. According to the Government, Bashir Ahmad Mir was suffering from frostbite at the time of his arrest and necessary treatment was given to him by the medical officer. The next day he complained of pain in his foot and was evacuated to Base hospital, Srinagar, and released on bail. Subsequently, six toes of his feet were amputated at the Bone and Joint hospital. It was