UP Police interrupt TMC leaders at Hathras border | Photo credit: ANI
Key points
- TMC MPs Derek O’Brien and Pratima Mondal were mistreated by Uttar Pradesh police on the Hathras border
- They were protesting the police refusal to allow them to visit the family of the Hathras rape victim.
Hathras: A Trinamool Congressional (TMC) delegation, which included Parliamentarians Derek O’Brien and Pratima Mondal, was abused by Uttar Pradesh police on the Hathras border as they headed to meet the rape victim’s family in Hathras group. The incident came a day after UP police pushed Congressman Rahul Gandhi to the ground.
The TMC delegation was detained at the Hathras border and ill-treated by the police because they refused to return. TMC MP Derek O’Brien was pushed to the ground by police personnel while two female party leaders were allegedly abused.
While speaking to the media, TMC’s Mamata Thakur said: “We were going to meet her family, but they wouldn’t let us. When we insisted, the policewomen took off our blouses and charged our MP Pratima Mondal with lathi. She fell. The male police officers touched her. This is embarrassing. “
Before the fray broke out, TMC leaders tried to persuade the police to allow them to meet the victim’s family with folded hands, with face masks and signs that read “Beti Bachao? Beti Jalao? Shame ( Save the daughter?) “.
One of the TMC MPs was quoted by the party as saying: “We are heading peacefully to Hathras to meet with the family and offer condolences. We travel individually and respect all protocols. We are not armed. Why are they detaining us? Of what Kind? of jungle raj is that elected MPs cannot reunite with a grieving family. Right now, we are only 1.5 km from the victim’s home in Hathras.
Lawyers demand that the president rule in Uttar Pradesh
Amid widespread outrage over the alleged gang rape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Hathras and her subsequent forcible cremation, dozens of Ghaziabad lawyers have demanded the imposition of President Rule in Uttar Pradesh.
Lawyers demanded the removal of the Yogi Adityanath government and the imposition of President Rule, saying that the gang rape of a Dalit woman and her brutalization amid a series of crimes against women in Uttar Pradesh has tarnished the image of the country and would flatten your progress graph.
The lawyers called for the imposition of President Rule in a memorandum addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind that they delivered to District Magistrate Ajay Shankar Pandey.
