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Dalit woman thrashed by cop in Amethi
Anup Srivastav
Lucknow, February 18, 2010
A Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi area was mercilessly beaten up
by a police officer in a bid to extract a confession out of her.
The woman was slapped, pushed, pulled by the hair and assaulted
repeatedly by Kailash Dwivedi, SHO of Musafirkhana police station, in
full public and media glare.
The woman faces the charge of murdering her husband and Dwivedi
thought this was an apt way of extracting a confession.
Even as the woman was being assaulted, a woman constable stood by as a
mute spectator. After the thrashing, Dwivedi smiled, apparently at a
job well done. But that wasn't the end. "Get a baton and I will teach
her a lesson," he said.
Human rights activists are appalled by this brutality in Congress
general secretary Rahul Gandhi's constituency. "It's brutal,
unimaginable and illegal. No male officer can touch a woman. We will
write to the chief minister and meet the DGP," said human rights
activist Roop Rekha Verma.
"A police officer abusing and molesting a woman can't happen in any
civilised country. How can he wear a uniform and do it?" asked
Poornima Advani, former chairperson of the National Commission for
Women.
Dwivedi was suspended after Headlines Today aired the report. "A case
will be registered and action taken," said Brij Lal, ADG (Law and
Order), Uttar Pradesh.
The Congress blamed the Mayawati government for the police's
high-handedness. UPCC spokesperson Akhilesh P .Singh said: "Law and
order is not the priority of the UP government, which is why policemen
act brazenly."
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