Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday visited the families of those who allegedly faced police excesses in Meerut and Muzaffarnagar. “We will go wherever there has been injustice and stand with them and support [the victims],” she said after visiting the families in Muzaffarnagar.
Police beat up people “without any reason,” she said. “Nobody has an objection when police acts against those who do something. But here, police entered the homes and beat up [people]. They broke the items kept for the girl’s [Ruqaiya] marriage. She has 16 stitches on her forehead,” Ms. Vadra said after meeting Ruqaiya Parveen, whose house was allegedly ransacked by police.
Policemen allegedly barged into her grandfather Haji Hamid Hasan Hasan's house and went on a rampage damaging furniture and looted cash from the drawers he was saving for the marriage of his granddaughters. Mr. Hasan was assaulted with lathis and also hit with the butt of a rifle, as per accounts. The marriage of his granddaughters Ruqaiya and Mubashshira is coming up in February.
In Muzaffarnagar, Ms. Vadra met Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini, who was allegedly beaten up by the police during a crackdown on the protests against the CAA.
Ms. Vadra said Mr Hussaini was in a madrassa with children when the police assaulted him “mercilessly”. Many, including minors, were put in jail, she said, adding that only some of them were released.
