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‘Lathi charge on vehicles to check for coronavirus’; Hyderabad police’s justification to violence in state

The petition highlighted many incidents, and police defended their stand.

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Did you know Lathi charge can check for coronavirus? We were also not aware of it but a bizarre claim has been made by Hyderabad police in its submission to the Telangana High Court, which sought a response on allegations of high-handedness by its personnel.

In a report of thenewsminute, bench bench comprising Chief Justice RS Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy was hearing a petition filed by one Sheela Sarah Mathews, who had alleged that the police were resorting to ‘excesses’ during the COVID-19 lockdown in Hyderabad, by unnecessarily beating people up.

The petition highlighted many incidents, and police defended their stand.

As Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar in his counter-affidavit claimed that one Mohd Asgar who alleged that he was assaulted by the police, “fell down while he was running away after noticing police personnel approaching his area.”

In another case, the petitioner mentioned the case of one Khaleem who was allegedly beaten up by the police.

The police claimed that he too, ran from them when they approached him and “fell into a manhole, thereby sustaining a fracture on his right leg.”

The police has given bizarre response to it and Anjani Kumar said that “the police had checked the vehicles using police lathis in order to see whether coronavirus was present or not.”

“This explanation by the police is indeed surprising. In order to check the presence of coronavirus, there is no need to use lathis. Therefore, the complete report, with regard to the alleged incident, needs to be submitted by the police before this court,” the Bench observed.

The court also observed many victims of police brutalities belonged to the Muslim community.

“Does it mean that there are no violators from other communities?” the bench was quoted as saying.

Observing that the police approach against the Muslims was high handed, the court pointed out the ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest across the United States against police brutality.

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