Complaint filed with NHRC against police action on BPSC students in Patna
The HinduBihar based advocate has complaint to National Human Rights Commission with regard to the police lathi charge on the protesting students of Bihar Public Service Commission who were demanding re-examination of 70th BPSC Combined Competitive Examination following the alleged paper leak. Supreme Court advocate Brajesh Singh has requested the NHRC to intervene in the matter on the basis of various media reports and demanded that the Commission should call for Action Taken Report and detailed information on the incident from the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police of Bihar. “On Tuesday at 9:15 p.m., I have lodged a detailed complaint through email regarding the serial lathicharge by Patna Police on BPSC candidates on December 6, December 26 and December 29, because excess force has been used in violation of the Supreme Court and many related guidelines. “In December there were three major protest held by the BPSC aspirant in the Patna and in all of these protest police has used excessive force to the extent that students bones were fractured and they were hit like animal even in the third consecutive incident of lathicharge which accrued on 29th of December 29th when the students had gathered although without permission but they were protesting peacefully without any kind of weapons or objects and they were in the folded hand before the police,” Mr. Singh said.