New Delhi, November 07, 2022 (PPI-OT):Police officers brutally beat and mistreated protesters, including women, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. In a video that has gone viral on social media, women and other people are protesting against the demolition of the statue of prominent Indian jurist and economist BR Ambedkar in Jalalpur area of Ambedkar Nagar district.
On receiving information about the demonstration, the police reached the spot and brutally tortured the protesting women and other people with sticks. However, the police claimed that force was used after the protesters threw stones at their vehicles.
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