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Collating a thread on police brutalities in these times of the national lockdown owing to the pandemic:
1. Lal Swami, a 32-year-old man in West Bengal’s Howrah district died on 25.3.20 after he was beaten up by the police for violating lockdown guidelines. The wife reports that he had gone out to buy milk in the evening. https://bengali.abplive.com/videos/news/bengal-during-lockdown-one-died-after-police-lathi-charged-in-howrah-678913
2. In Uttar Pradesh's Maharajganj (Gorakhpur), people who had gone to the vegetable market, were lathicharged. The police circle officer said that only wholesale shops could be opened. https://www.livehindustan.com/uttar-pradesh/story-police-lathi-charge-on-public-gathering-in-vegetable-market-of-mahrajganj-during-lock-down-3107003.html
3,4. Two separate incidents: At Mamata Hospital area and Yellandu crossroads, in Khammam, town ACP P V Ganesh roughed up a government doctor, a private doctor and her colleague during the coronavirus lockdown inspections. https://telanganatoday.com/doctors-accuse-khammam-acp-of-misbehaviour
5. Ahmedabad police topples vegetable-laden lorries. https://twitter.com/thisisjignesh/status/1244919205272735746?s=20
6. Telangana police brutally beat and humiliate the poor, all in the name of public security against coronavirus. https://twitter.com/srivatsayb/status/1244945309303574529?s=20
7. Despite having official documents that authorise him to collect garbage in these times, the Delhi police attacked Chandan. He wasn't given a chance to show the document. https://twitter.com/Sourav_RB/status/1245036413860474881?s=20
8. At Jammu's Bharat Mata Chowk on 26th Mar, armed policemen rounded up about 10men. The police directed them to repeat the following sentences in unison: “We’re enemies of the police” “We’re enemies of the country”; “We’re enemies of Modi sahab.” https://caravanmagazine.in/health/jammu-and-kashmir-police-use-batons-and-firs-to-enforce-covid-19-lockdown-hospitals-struggle
9. Rajasthan police lathicharges migrants trying to return home during this lockdown. https://twitter.com/news24tvchannel/status/1244966925286940673
10. Bareilly UP: Migrant workers are sprayed with Sodium Hypochlorite - a corrosive surface purification substance which can permanently damage eyes. https://twitter.com/salimdotcomrade/status/1244589960126238721
11. Goa: Police beats up people for violating the lockdown. https://twitter.com/kurtbento/status/1244185461947396097?s=20
12. In Rajasthan's Pratapgarh also, the police made few youngsters hop along a road as a punishment for violating the Coronavirus lockdown. https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-up-cops-make-people-hop-with-bags-during-coronavirus-lockdown-ssp-apologises/349512
13. From an earlier thread I collated on the condition of medical professionals:
Doctors in Telengana beaten and abused by the police for breaking curfew. https://twitter.com/SwetaDash93/status/1242357524734414849
Doctors in Telengana beaten and abused by the police for breaking curfew. https://twitter.com/SwetaDash93/status/1242357524734414849
14. Belgaum police beats up a medical staff. https://twitter.com/haladankar/status/1243452738651844613
15. Punjab police beats up people for trying to go buy essentials.
https://www.facebook.com/inderjeet.singh.98871/posts/10215889574128259
https://www.facebook.com/inderjeet.singh.98871/posts/10215889574128259
16. "Across India, there have been reports of grocery, medicine and food delivery agents being abused and assaulted by policemen." https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/coronavirus-india-lockdown-e-tailers-complain-police-beating-up-delivery-agents-2200587
17. Police beats up a senior citizen in Samba, Jammu. https://twitter.com/HaiderA87220811/status/1243603672497557504
18. On 27th Mar, Amar Ujala reports: Police fired at Sonu Shah (a pickup truck driver ferrying potatoes in Patna, Bihar) after he refused them a bribe. https://www.amarujala.com/bihar/three-bihar-cops-arrested-for-shooting-at-driver-of-pick-up-van-carrying-potatoes-and-asking-for-bribe
19. Police brutalities in Mumbai and other places, as covered by Reuters. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1242966998222401537?s=20
20. An account by @nandinisundar and @svaradarajan: https://twitter.com/nandinisundar/status/1248626723018526722?s=19
21. Thousands of migrant workers wanting to board the trains to head home, and this is how the police decides to act.
Resuming this thread, thanks to phenomenal speech of today and more. https://twitter.com/meeracomposes/status/1250048023406641157?s=19
Resuming this thread, thanks to phenomenal speech of today and more. https://twitter.com/meeracomposes/status/1250048023406641157?s=19
