A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 24 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted search of Mr. Choles Ritchil. They arrested Protab Jamble, B. S. (Mr. Ritchil’s son, a 10th grade student), P. K. S. (also a 10th grade student), Nosil Ritchil (a relative of Mr. Choles Ritchil) and Nokul Chandra Burman (a worker at Mr. Choles Ritchil’s residence). The detained persons were beaten during their detention. As a result, they required medical treatment at the HLTH Complex in Modhupur from 11 to 13 February 2007. On 18 March 2007, Choles Ritchil, Piren Simsang, Tuhin Hadima and Protab Jamble, were arrested while they were travelling in a microbus, by six members of the joint forces dressed in civilian clothing at Kalibari, in Muktagacha Upazila. Following the arrest, the men who had arrested Mr. Choles Ritchil and the other three persons travelling with him made telephone calls that led to the arrival of 40 additional agents of the joint forces in two lorries. The security forces took the arrested persons to the nearby Khakraid army camp at around 2 p.m. In the army camp, Mr. Choles Ritchil and Mr. Protab Jamble were kept in one room, and Mr. Piren Simsang and Mr. Tuhin Hadim in another. Mr. Choles Ritchil was tied to the grill of a window and beaten by nine persons. A major entered the room ordering junior officers to “size up Choles”, following which they used pliers to press Mr. Ritchil’s testicles and insert needles in his fingers. Hot water was poured into Mr. Ritchil’s nostrils. He was hung upside down, vomited blood and fainted several times. At one moment, a physician in uniform came into the room, accompanied by the major. Mr. Ritchil was Government response 1956. It carried out an extensive investigation on the allegations. In this connection, four persons belonging to the armed forces were punished, including removal from service and debarment from promotion. A number of other individuals, which include public officials, doctors and forest officials are also being punished accordingly.