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NEW DELHI: CPI(M) Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas has written to Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golchha, alleging that 2 Kerala students were assaulted by constabulary and locals adjacent Red Fort connected Wednesday.
The students were reportedly "coerced" to talk Hindi and mocked for wearing accepted Kerala attire aft being falsely accused of theft.The students, Aswanth I T and Sudhin K from Zakir Husain Delhi College, were allegedly subjected to custodial battle and humiliation by Delhi Police personnel.
According to Brittas's letter, the incidental occurred connected September 24 erstwhile the students were adjacent Red Fort. They were confronted by a radical who falsely accused them of theft."Instead of extending extortion to these students, the policemen contiguous reportedly colluded with the mob and what followed was thing abbreviated of custodial brutality: the students were dragged, beaten with fibre lathis, stomped upon, stripped, and humiliated successful the astir degrading manner," Brittas said.The MP stated that their mobile phones were confiscated and they were coerced into making mendacious confessions.
"It is learnt that the battle continued adjacent wrong constabulary premises, successful afloat nationalist view, with locals permitted to enactment successful the assault. The mobile telephone and footwear of 1 of the students were besides reportedly stolen during the assault," helium alleged.Brittas highlighted that the students were further beaten and abused erstwhile they tried to pass successful English owed to their constricted Hindi proficiency."Even much outrageous" were reports that 1 of the students was targeted and ridiculed for wearing his accepted Kerala attire, the mundu, thereby converting a elemental taste look into grounds for criminalisation," helium said."Such behaviour demonstrates a disturbing premix of taste prejudice and unconstitutional coercion," Brittas stated, noting it violated the law principles of taste and linguistic diversity.The CPI(M) person emphasized that Delhi Police has a greater work to guarantee the information and information of students from different states pursuing acquisition successful the capital."I truthful earnestly impulse you to contented urgent directions to behaviour an impartial high-level probe into the incident, ensuring that officers and others liable for this barbaric battle are identified and brought to justice, arsenic good arsenic to retrieve and instrumentality the belongings mislaid by the students successful this ordeal," helium said.Brittas concluded his missive by requesting the commissioner to contented lasting instructions to each Delhi constabulary units to support taste sensitivity and uphold law values without discrimination."I besides question your benevolence successful issuing lasting instructions to each constabulary units successful Delhi to uphold taste sensitivity, law values, and the cardinal rights of each citizens, without prejudice oregon discrimination," helium added.
