Discussion on State Brutality in Protests

This is a situation where brutality to the largest measure possible has been used

in relation to a peaceful agitation.

I am not for once saying this,

that the state did not have the ability to regulate the movement.

The state did not have the ability within itself to channelize the movement.

There is a pen drive which I have

given to your lordship for the lordship's consideration.

There are a series of videos which your lordship will see where

all kinds of violence is being perpetrated.

As my learned friend had just said, there are lathis which are having

nails onto it by which the children are being beaten.

There are pellets which are being used.

There are not only pellets, there are electric

batons which are being used to give electric current.

If this is the manner in which a peaceful demonstration will be

dealt with which was well within its rights... Not a whisper anywhere till now.

If at all it is their case that the crowd turned unmanageable at some point

of time or it took to violence at some point of time,

there is a particular manner in which it has to be dealt with.

Adequate warning was to be given. There is not a single instance

where they can show that there was a warning given to the agitating people that

please disperse,

otherwise force will be used against you.

There was no whistle blown to say that now force is going to be used against

you in this fashion.

If I go back to colonial times, in colonial times also when 144 was in place,

these were the basic necessities which were supposed to be adhered to.