By IndiaTomorrow.net,
Jaipur, 27 Feb 2015: Eminent human rights activists have approached the Jaipur Police Commissioner seeking action in the alleged custodial torture of 20 Christians at the Mansarovar Police station. In a memorandum to Police Commissioner Janga Rao they sought suspension and arrest of the guilty policemen.
“We people from different communities, the Sadbhav Manch ( an inter faith dialogue platform) and fellow Human Rights workers are shocked that the Mansarovar Police station indulged blatantly in custodial violence of the 20 members from the Hebron Church of Hyderabad who had come to Jaipur to carry out publicity of their faith. It is clear to us that at the behest of the hindutva communal forces, who hurled abuses and barged into the house in Shanti Nagar, Gurjar ki Thadi, where they were staying, the police carried out this action,” said rights activists in their complaint.
Civil rights activists including Kavita Srivastava and Mohammad Salim Engineer addressing press conference in Jaipur on 27 Feb 2015.
They further said: “It is ironical that instead of bringing the law breakers to the police station, they pushed these 20 representatives of the Hebron Church in 2 jeeps and kicked them and pushed them on reaching the police station. On reaching there ASI Daya Ram and one ASI in police clothes and one other in plain clothes, were subjected to third degree torture…”
They demanded action against the policemen and the miscreants who terrorised the Christian group.
The memorandum is signed by:
Kavita Srivastava, John Mathew, Salim Engineer, Dr Iqbal, Dr. Vijay Pal Singh, Harold Singh, Acharya Vikas, Bijendra Singh, Kapil Singh, VArghese M, Walter Massey, AB Paul, AB Singh, Samuel Roberts, Olive Malaki, Abul Kalam John Tito Rathnam, Khalid Manzoor, Dr. M Ismail, TAmil Mani, Morris Kancham, Lisa MAthews, LP Bharti, Shahid Khan, Nazimuddin.
