Tripura Students’ Group Calls Off 12-Hour Bandh To Protest Assault By Cops

Guwahati:

Tripura’s highly effective Tribal College students Federation (TSF) has referred to as off its 12-hour statewide strike scheduled to be noticed on Monday to protest the alleged thrashing of two tribal college students for having parked their two-wheeler on the route that Chief Minister Biplab Deb’s convoy was to take.

The police had registered a case in opposition to the 2 tribal college students though they pleaded innocence, claiming that their two-wheeler had damaged down they usually had no intention of blocking the best way of the Chief Minister on Thursday.

The scholars have alleged that they weren’t solely mercilessly crushed however the police refused to register a criticism of bodily assault in opposition to the visitors police personnel who assaulted them. One of many college students additionally alleged {that a} police officer even hit him within the groin, injuring him severely.

A separate case has additionally been registered on the criticism lodged by the 2 college students Angel Reang and Abhijit Debbarma.

The Tripura Police has ordered a probe and benched the policemen accused within the incident. 

Addressing a press convention within the Agartala Press Membership on Sunday, TSF advisor Upendra Debbarma in presence of the organisation’s common secretary John Debbarma and different office-bearers declared the bandh and likewise demanded strict punishment for the policemen.

That is the second criticism of extreme drive utilized by the police excessive in Agartala in lower than every week.

Earlier this month, members of the LGBT neighborhood had complained in opposition to the state police for allegedly forcefully stripping a few of them in public for checking their gender.