Friday 6 February, 2009

Guardians turn violators: Police atrocities on the rise



Times of India - 4/2/09 & 6/2/09 

  • Cops torture 7-yr-old Dalit girl in Maya’s UP
Kanpur: In Dalit icon Mayawati’s Uttar Pradesh, a seven-year-old Dalit girl was tortured by six remorseless cops  inside the Jaswantnagar police station in Etawah district for allegedly stealing Rs 280. They were trying to extract a confession from her about Monday’s theft, perversely laughing at her tearful protestations of innocence.

  • UP cops shoot at polio-affected man
The inhuman face of UP policemen again came to the fore when a 30-year-old polio-affected man was allegedly shot at and critically injured by two policemen on duty under the Sikandara police station in Kanpur Dehat..... 

Arun, who has polio in his left leg, was shot on left arm and left thigh. He was rushed to a nearby PHC from where he was later shifted to Madhuraj nursing home for treatment. “They just stopped us and opened fire. The only crime we were doing at that point of time was that we were tripling on our motorcycle,” he said. 

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