Students’ Fact-Finding Team Accuses UP Police Of Brutality At CAA Protests
The UP executive and police have again and again denied any wrongdoing (Report)
New Delhi:
A fact-finding staff comprising scholars from a number of distinguished universities reminiscent of JNU, Jamia Millia Islamia and Banaras Hindu College on Wednesday accused the Uttar Pradesh police of “brutality” in coping with anti-Citizenship Modification Act protests and focused on Muslims.
The reality-finding staff travelled to all 15 violence-affected towns in Uttar Pradesh from Meerut to Bijnor to Firozabad from January 14-19.
“Police completely focused Muslim ghettos and economically marginalised individuals who labored as ragpickers, day-to-day salary labourer, at small dhabas, and so on,” the file launched to the media by way of the gang of scholars at a press convention right here alleged.
It claimed that the police, as an alternative of curtailing the protest and dispersing folks, open fired at the folks killing most commonly children particularly minors.
The UP executive and police have again and again denied any wrongdoing and asserted that safety workforce deployed to handle regulation and order have been attacked.
Violence all through the anti-Citizenship (Modification) Act protests claimed lives in districts reminiscent of Bijnor, Sambhal, Firozabad, Kanpur, Varanasi and Meerut within the state.
“Police didn’t agree to the elemental rules of the usage of fire fingers and fired above the waist. UP police were arresting folks around the state with out proof and particularly at night time,” the file titled “Lawless Uttar Pradesh — Scholars file on Police brutality” alleged.
A scholar, who used to be a part of the fact-finding staff, mentioned households of the the ones killed weren’t allowed to take useless our bodies again to their properties and have been compelled to bury them inside of an hour or so below heavy police deployment.
