Torture against Indian Activists in Delhi
In July, police officers in civil, arrested, detained and tortured six activists in Delhi, as reported by the Revolutionary Writers’ Association and The Wire.
On 9th of July three Students, Gurkirat (20), Gaurav (23) and Gaurang (24), who are associated with BSCEM (Bhagat Singh Chatra Ekta Manch) Students Union, have been detained and harassed by police officers. These came in plain civillian clothes, and kidnapped them, because the detention had no legal justification.
— ‘You are terrorists, not students. You have to come with us to the office.’ —
a police officer said while arresting.
Two days later, on 11th of July Etham (26) and Lakshita (Badal) (21), members of FACAM, were detained also in Dehli, and on 12th Samrat a professor and social activist got detained in his home in Haryana. Rudra, was detained on 19th at the Train station in New Delhi.
All of them, were not brought to a police station, but to an unknown place, where all of them got interrogated, beaten and tortured. The police took off the clothes of the detainees, whipped them with leather belts and whips, insulting them and making the other detained watch it. After it, they were forced to sign documents that they weren’t allowed to read or that been in blank. While the interrogations they were asked continuously where a certain Valika was. Valika, a student and member of Nazariya Magazine’s Editorial Staff, had an ideological conflict at home with her parents and left home. Her mother is a Indian Administration Service (IAS) bureaucrat officer and in consequence of the conflict Valika left home. The police is investigating if the activists helped Valika to flee and are searching her. The parents of the activists also suffered repression, being threatened and blackmailed. After nearly a week of detention the activists were released.
