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CPI (M) to move NHRC on ‘police excesses ’

Staff Reporter

Party accuses woma n police of biting hands of party activists

I’m with you: CPI (M) State secretary B. V. Raghavulu interacting with party activists who were taken into custody on Tuesday.

NELLORE: Communist Party of India (Marxist) will soon lodge a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the alleged police excess on party activists in particular on women protestors, who took out a rally here on Monday.

Taking a dig at the police for using force to disperse party activists, CPI (M) State Secretary B. V. Raghavulu wondered as to why a large contingent of police embark on a pre-dawn operation to clear the occupied land at Kothur village of Nellore rural mandal with earth movers. He also found fault with the police for resorting to lathicharge on displaced people, who were trying to hold protest demonstrations as well as taking out a procession to the district Collectorate from different parts of the town.

Expressing concern over the police ‘excess’, in which several people including women were injured, the CPI (M) State Secretary, who was here to meet party activists, alleged that the women police had even ‘bitten’ hands of the women party activists. “Hence we will take up the issue with both the State and National Women Commissions besides the NHRC. And the visuals on television news channels will strengthen our claims in particular manhandling of women workers,” he told reporters on Tuesday.

Mr. Raghavulu said that the party wo ld also conduct awareness meetings across the State to expose the Government’s alleged indifferent attitude to distribute surplus land to the eligible poor. He demanded that the Government implement recommendations of Koneru Ranga Rao committee report. “We will withdraw our agitation if the Government implements the recommendations in toto,” he added.

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