Advocate Files PIL Highlighting Cases Of Police Brutality In Mumbai During Lockdown; Bombay HC Seeks Reply From State [Read Order]
Live LawThe Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed the State government to reply to the contentions raised in a PIL filed by a lawyer regarding cases of police brutality that have taken place in Mumbai during the lockdown that was imposed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik heard a PIL filed by Firdaus Irani, an advocate and. Division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik heard a PIL filed by Firdaus Irani, an advocate and activist who alleged that a group of men in plain clothes along with some policemen and MCGM officials assaulted him, his wife and his two sons outside their residence in Goregaon. Irani contended that on April 16, 2020, he arrived outside his residence along with his wife and saw that a group of men in plain clothes along with uniformed policemen and MCGM officials were shooing away hawkers and when he started to walk towards his house with his wife, a man in plain clothes armed with lathi in hand charged at him hurling abuses.