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Forum to elicit views on lathicharge

Staff Reporter

VIJAYAWADA : To elicit public views on the police lathicharge on student activists last week, legal sub-committee of Jana Vignana Vedika (JVV) organised an open forum inviting people from different sections to react to the incident, here on Sunday.

Members of local NGOs, artistes, poets, freedom fighters, members of the judiciary and women in large numbers attended the meeting. Sub-committee convenor A.S.S. Ram Prasad and JVV's State vice-president Jampa Krishna Kishore raised queries asking: "did the situation demand a lathicharge ?" and "was it in violation of human rights?"

Issues pertaining to why elders remained silent spectators to the incident and why the police acted in such a manner were also thrown up for public debate.

The speakers condemned the police's high-handedness and said it was against democratic norms to subject innocent students to a lathicharge.

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