Police atrocities in UP

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CAA-NRC

Lucknow: Protests have erupted across the country against the Act which grants Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, who entered India on or before December 31, 2014.

Taking action against the protesters, police arrested them. Arrested persons face atrocities.

Kanpur

  • Death – 3 (due to gunshot injuries)
  • Injured – 20 (9 gunshots)
  • Arrested – 13
  • Detained – 729
  • Unidentified booked – 21500 (across 15 police stations )
  • Property destruction – several vehicles and one police outpost were torched
  • Begumjung Police station – On December 21, nearly a hundred police personnel can be seen breaking open the shutter of shops and damaging parked vehicles
  • Babupurwa Police Station – All 3 deaths occurred in Babupurva Police Station area

Bijnor

  • Deaths – 2 (due to firearms injury)
  • Arrested – 153 (Nagina PS – 83, Nehtaur – 70)
  • Total Detained – 104 (20.19.2019)
  • Minor detained – 21 (from 20.12.2019 to 22.12.2019)
  • Unidentified booked – 3000 people
  • Property – UP Police ransacked and vandalized several houses and vehicles
  • Nehtaur Police Station – UP Police harassed women and threated their children to disclose the location of the male members of their families
  • Youngest person detained on the night of 20th December was aged only 13 and kept for 2 days.
  • Nagina Police Station – Detainees including minor were beaten and harassed at detention center and en route to the court. However, 21 minor were released on 22.12.19 without charges.
  • Senior police officers of Bijnor admitted that a civilian was killed in police firing by a service pistol of one of the constable.

Muzaaffarnagar

  • Arrested – 72 (40 students from Saadat Madarsa)
  • Total named – 262
  • Unidentified booked -3000
  • Property – More than 67 shops sealed in Muzaffarnagar after ‘Revenge’ Warning’ from Chief Minister
  • Property seizure receipt for not paying land revenue in Meenakshi chowk was issued by district admin dated 19.12.2019
  • 70-100 policemen allegedly broke the lock of 74-year-old Anwar Ilahi’s home and completely destroyed the property
  • Rs. 3.5 lakhs were stolen by police from the house
  • Mobile and landline Internet blockade since 19.12.2019
  • Total 26 FIRs has been filed ever since

Gorakhpur

  • Arrested – 26 (FIR no. 272/2019)
  • Total named – 36
  • Unidentified booked – 1000+
  • Detained – 60+ (On the night of 20.12.2019 for next two days)
  • Cellphones of detainees were taken and Facebook & Whatsapp chat checked without permission
  • Property –  Gorakhpur admin sent show cause notices to 33 people which might lead to imminent seizure of their property

Meerut

  • Death – 5
  • Arrested – 43
  • Total named – 172 (Total 15 FIRs)
  • Property – The worth of damage to property was assessed to be at Rs 14 lakh and District administration blamed 141 people for the damages. Show cause notices were issued which may lead to property seizure
  • Lasadi Gate Police station area was worst affected with riots

Sambhal

  • Death – 2 (Including SP Leader Shafiqur R. Barq and Feroz Khan)
  • Arrested – 30
  • Total Named – 19
  • Unidentified booked – 250+
  • Property – One state transport bus was set on fire and other was vandalized

Lucknow

  • Death – 1 (Mohd Wakeel died due to firearm injury)
  • House Arrests – 1000+ (including Sandeep Pandey)
  • Toral Named – 54 (FIR No. -600 & 601 of 2019)
  • Property – Procedure to seize property of alleged protestors has started by District Administration
  •  Journalist Omar Rashid of The Hindu and his friend were detained by Hazaratganj police
  • Mohd Shoaib was arrested by Aminabad police and his wife – Arundhati Dhuru, activists Meera Sanghamitra and Madhvi Kukreja were detained for several hours when they went to the police station to inquire about Shoaib. 
  • A Team of TMC workers were detained

Varanasi

  • Death – 6 (including 8 year old Mohd. Sageer)
  • Arrested – 218
  • Total named – 57
  • As many as 69 activists were arrested on December 19, after they staged a peaceful demonstration.  Fifty-six of them have been charged with grievous crimes such as violent rioting etc.
  • Police contends that 8 year old Mohd. Sageer died in a stampede but media and ground report says otherwise

Rampur

  • Death – 1 (Due to firearms injury)
  • Arrested – 33 (FIR no. 655 & 832 of 2019)
  • Total Named – 150
  • Property – Notices to 28 persons after damage of nearly Rs. 25 lakhs was assessed