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Rajya Sabha MP A.A. Rahim moved the Supreme Court on Monday(October 12, 2026)versus the unlawful detention,”secret transport”in specialised compartmentalised lorries, and custodial abuse of Democratic Youth Federation of India(DYFI) workplace bearers, Central Committee members and activists by the cops on October 11, 2026 at Connaught Place in the nationwide capital.
Mr. Rahim, represented by supporter Subhash Chandran K.R., looked for a statement, binding standards, an independent questions and payment from the Union federal government. The MP has actually arraigned the Home Ministry as a participant.
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He has actually looked for an independent court-monitored query into the unlawful detention and custodial abuse, with instructions to sign up an FIR versus the officers discovered accountable for the detention of the members, workplace bearers and Central Committee members.
Mr. Rahim stated he and members of the DYFI had actually been holding a tranquil and unarmed demonstration requiring the resignation of the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar when uniformed workers stroked and dragged DYFI members, consisting of ladies, on the roadway and required them into a bus.
“They were not required to any police headquarters. Rather, while still near Connaught Place, the bus was driven to a closed and greatly secured area in front of the Daryaganj dining establishment, far from public view, out of the reach of the media and with no CCTV electronic cameras. There, the detainees were arranged according to gender and after that by force moved into a specialised paddy wagon divided into 5 different cells,” the petition stated.
The MP stated the act of excess and detention was not a roaming one, however prepared and intentionally carried out to portion physical cruelty.
“Inside the cells of the van, the detainees were beaten on the face, kicked on the foundation with boots and struck on the head. Numerous of the workers used no name badges. The detainees were then required to Surajmal Stadium, which they reached at about 2 p.m. The cars worked as unrecorded, mobile locations of detention, completely outside the safeguards of the Constitution and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS),” the petition stated.
It stated neither was an arrest memo prepared nor premises of arrest interacted. No relative or buddy was notified, and no location of detention was revealed. No detainee was clinically analyzed or produced before a Magistrate.
“The detainees were launched just at about 7.30 p.m. on October 11 after more than 7 hours in cops custody, with no food or main requirements. When the hurt went to Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital for medico-legal assessment, law enforcement officer in plain clothing stayed present throughout, and the petitioner nabs that the medico-legal certificates might not really tape-record the injuries,” the petition stated.
The plea looked for a statement that the detention and making use of curtained, compartmentalised or otherwise sealed automobiles as locations of detention as prohibited and violative of basic rights.
The participants need to forthwith stop and avoid all acts of custodial abuse, physical attack, vicious, inhuman or degrading treatment, and prohibited detention of protesters and other individuals, and to guarantee rigorous compliance with the constitutional and statutory safeguards governing arrest, detention, interrogation and custodial treatment,” the petition stated.
Released – October 12, 2026 02:12 pm IST
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