Amnesty: India police used excessive force during protests
Demonstrations in New Delhi over the medical entrance test leak turned violent on July 20 when thousands marched towards parliament. NEW DELHI : Indian police…
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Demonstrations in New Delhi over the medical entrance test leak turned violent on July 20 when thousands marched towards parliament. (EPA Images pic) NEW DELHI : Indian police used excessive force, including electric shock devices and pellet guns, against youth-led protests that forced the education minister to resign last month, Amnesty International said Monday. The protests proved to be the biggest challenge that Modi has faced after winning a third term in 2024. Amnesty said witness testimony and visual evidence it had verified confirmed the use of “pellet-firing shotguns, tear gas launchers, grenades, batons and electric shock devices against protesters” in Delhi and the eastern state of Bihar.
Furthermore, Amnesty said it had also verified two instances of a police officer “unlawfully using lethal force against a crowd” in Bihar’s Siwan district. Amnesty said that there were “isolated incidents of protesters throwing stones”, but that the “heavy-handed response was state-sanctioned violence masked as crowd control.” Delhi Police said in a Supreme Court hearing last week they had used force only after protesters “resorted to violence”. Led by the online Cockroach Janta Party, the protests broadened from anger over exam irregularities into a wider movement over unemployment, opportunities for young people and what critics describe as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
In addition, Gandhi demanded a police investigation into the shooting, and officers later registered a case over the complaint.
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Demonstrations in New Delhi over the medical entrance test leak turned violent on July 20 when thousands marched towards parliament. (EPA Images pic) NEW DELHI : Indian police used excessive force, including electric shock devices and pellet guns, against youth-led protests that forced the education minister to resign last month, Amnesty International said Monday.
reliability moderate2/3 sourcesIndia police used excessive force during protests, Amnesty says.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThe protests proved to be the biggest challenge that Modi has faced after winning a third term in 2024.
reliability low1/2 sourcesAmnesty said witness testimony and visual evidence it had verified confirmed the use of “pellet-firing shotguns, tear gas launchers, grenades, batons and electric shock devices against protesters” in Delhi and the eastern state of Bihar.
reliability low1/2 sourcesAmnesty said it had also verified two instances of a police officer “unlawfully using lethal force against a crowd” in Bihar’s Siwan district.
reliability low1/2 sourcesAmnesty said that there were “isolated incidents of protesters throwing stones”, but that the “heavy-handed response was state-sanctioned violence masked as crowd control.” Delhi Police said in a Supreme Court hearing last week they had used force only after protesters “resorted to violence”.
reliability low1/2 sourcesLed by the online Cockroach Janta Party, the protests broadened from anger over exam irregularities into a wider movement over unemployment, opportunities for young people and what critics describe as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
reliability low1/2 sourcesGandhi demanded a police investigation into the shooting, and officers later registered a case over the complaint.
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