"Inhuman Brutality": Trinamool Moves Rights Body Over Gujarat Flogging
NDTV
Earlier this week, policemen publicly flogged some men who were part of a mob who allegedly threw stones at a garba event in Gujarat.
The Trinamool has filed a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission in connection with the public flogging of Muslim men by the Gujarat Police personnel, party spokesperson Saket Gokhale said on Friday. He said it is "a matter of shame" that the NHRC hasn't taken suo moto cognizance of the matter. It is a matter of shame to see that National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) hasn't suo moto taken up the matter of Gujarat Police publicly flogging Muslim youthBut they shouldn't have the excuse of "no one complained"We @AITCofficial have filed a complaint with the NHRC today pic.twitter.com/yucrjMmF0N
Earlier this week, policemen publicly flogged some men who were part of a mob comprising members of the Muslim community who allegedly threw stones at a garba event in Undhela village in Gujarat's Kheda district.
Purported video clips of the incident showed three men arrested for stone throwing being held against an electricity pole, one after the other, by a policeman and being flogged by another with a lathi.
"It is a matter of shame to see that National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) hasn't suo moto taken up the matter of Gujarat Police publicly flogging Muslim youth. But they shouldn't have the excuse of "no one complained". We All India Trinamool Congress filed a complaint with the NHRC today," Mr Gokhale said in a tweet.
