Chennai: Four students suffered injuries when an SI punched them when they were staging a demonstration seeking justice for students of Hyderabad University. One of the injured suffered concussion. Greeshma Rai, a member of JAC, said the police started speaking anti women and anti-minority language.”
The demonstrators have written a letter to deputy commissioner of police narrating the incident. The letter said members of JAC went on a peaceful fast for students’ rights and political justice in Hyderabad University and Madras University.
The students were detained in Nungambakkam jurisdiction and while police were discussing their release a sub-inspector allegedly started ‘using anti-women and anti-minority fanatical language’. The letter further read “We were threatened with non-bailable charges and extremely abusive language targeting women students and students who could not speak Tamil”.
The letter also said men students were manhandled using anti-Muslim chauvinistic slurs. Things escalated to the extent that the police officer punched four students. A student, M. Shreela, suffered a concussion above her left eye.
The demonstrators sought removal of Gopinath from SI post.
