The protesters had clashed with the police after the dead body of a 6-year-old girl was found on Thursday in Aligarh. She had gone missing on Wednesday night. ...
07:20 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Lokjanshakti Party president Ramvilas Paswan on Tuesday demanded imposition of President rule in Bihar in the wake of 'brutal' police lathicharge on agitating teachers which attracted adverse comments from Supreme Court. ...
02:42 AM, Mar 13, 2013
Police on Tuesday lathicharged protesting students in Patna who were agitating against the murder of a student on Monday evening. Reports say students at a hostel affiliated to the Patna University had an altercation with some locals. One of the students had died in the ensuing firing. ...
01:46 PM, Mar 12, 2013
The Punjab and Haryana High Court lawyers clashed with police in front of the Punjab governor's house, following which the police used water cannons to disperse them. The lawyers were protesting against an FIR filed against some advocates for allegedly thrashing a policeman on February 26. ...
02:16 PM, Mar 06, 2013
The Supreme Court has taken suo moto cognizance of police lathicharge on a woman in Tarn Taran and contractual teachers in Bihar. The court has sought explanation by Monday from both the states on the conduct of the police and has directed the Attorney General to assist the matter. ...
12:07 PM, Mar 06, 2013
Women workers of the newly formed Sikkim Krantikari Morcha were assaulted by male police officers on February 11, after they allegedly threw plastic bottles at Chief Minister Pawan Chamling's car. The Inspector General of Police of the area, Akshay Sachdeva ordered a lathicharge inside the office of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, even as the process to identify the miscreants who threw plastic bottles on Chamling's car was on. ...
07:45 AM, Feb 19, 2013
The anti-rape protesters were lathicharged on Sunday as some sections of the crowd turned violent at India Gate. However, those beaten and injured also included women protesters. They complained that there were no warning and the police simply went on to lathicharge protesters. The police also used water cannons and tear gas shells to disperse the protesters. ...
04:11 PM, Dec 24, 2012
As hundreds of protesters gathered at Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi to protest against the bus gangrape incident, police lathicharged them and opened water cannons at them to disperse them from the site. ...
01:58 PM, Dec 22, 2012
Bhopal: Congress workers in Madhya Pradesh were lathicharged on Thursday as they tried to march to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence protesting against coal block allocation. Other than their batons, the police used a water cannon to disperse the crowd as well. The protestors were holding a public rally. However, when they tried to march to the Chief Minister's residence, the police denied them permission and stooped...
03:53 PM, Oct 04, 2012
New Delhi: A protest against an anti-encroachment drive in the Jwalapuri area near the Udyog Nagar metro station in west Delhi turned violent on Saturday as the locals clashed with the police. The police resorted to lathicharge to disperse the mob. Eyewitnesses said that the police also fired tear gas shells at the protesting crowd. The police were trying to remove the makeshift huts in the slum in the area...
03:22 PM, Sep 29, 2012
In Ahmedabad, the Police had to resort to lathi charge when a huge crowd waiting to collect forms for cheap houses at the Gujarat housing board got impatient. ...
09:04 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Ahmedabad: The police had to resort to a mild lathicharge outside the Gujarat Housing Board office in Ahmedabad on Monday after crowds had swelled to collect forms for the state government's affordable housing scheme. Interestingly, the government's announcement comes as a retaliation to the Congress's salvo fired on the same lines - that it will provide affordable housing to the poor people for just Rs 70,000 a house if voted...
11:58 AM, Aug 27, 2012
Amroha: Violent clashes broke out on Monday in the ruling Samajwadi Party's stronghold of Amroha over an ongoing power crisis. The police lathicharged some of the protestors who were staging a sit-in at the Hasanpur area. The mob retaliated by torching several police vehicles as well as trucks, a bus and a car. The situation is said to be under control now. It's unclear whether there were any injuries or...
11:12 AM, Jul 17, 2012
HAVERI:Police resorted to a mild lathicharge to control the farmers who were waiting to purchase Bt cotton seeds at Taluk Agriculture Produce Cooperative Marketing Society (TAPCMS) here on Tuesday. Ten farmers were injured in the incident which took place when the crowd allegedly tried to break the barricades erected by police.The farmers had gathered at the society to buy Mahycos Kanaka Bt Cotton No 7351 seeds.Some of the injured farmers...
10:48 AM, May 09, 2012
Patna: A day after the police lathicharge on locals in Nalanda, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday ordered a probe by the AGP (headquarter) into the incident and immediate suspension of policemen found involved in it. "Legal action must be taken against those found guilty," he ordered and asked Director General of Police to view TV footages of the lathicharge and take legal action against policemen found to be...
12:16 PM, Sep 15, 2011
New Delhi: Delhi Police have been accused of employing excessive force while dispersing a protest march by Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha workers in New Delhi on Tuesday. Police allegedly lathicharged BJP youth workers after they tried to force their way towards Parliament. But new evidence reveal that police personnel were attacked and hit by stones and bricks, which forced them to take action against the protestors. The BJP Yuva ...
01:47 PM, Aug 11, 2011
New Delhi: Agitated over police action against protesting BJP youth wing activists on Tuesday, senior BJP leader L K Advani on Wednesday complained to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee that the orders seem to have come directly from Home Minister P Chidambaram. Advani, who met Mukherjee in Parliament, told him about the "atrocities" meted out to the activists of the Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha. Sources said Advani, without naming Chidambaram, told...
02:17 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: Pro-Left student activists and police clashed here on Wednesday as protest march taken out by the campus agitators over the issue of self-financing college admissions turned violent. Several students and policemen were injured as the march organised by SFI and AISF, campus wings of CPI-M and CPI, took a violent turn in front of the government secretariat after the marchers sought to press ahead breaching barricades raised by law...
02:55 PM, Jun 29, 2011
Bangalore: Cricket fans were lathicharged outside Bangalore's Chinnaswamy Stadium on Thursday morning while trying to buy tickets for the eagerly-awaited India-England World Cup match that will be played on Sunday. Police lathicharged the fans after tickets for Sunday's match ran out. Many of the fans had been queuing outside the stadium since Wednesday. When the 4000 tickets available ran out, things got out of control and police had to lathicharge...
02:22 PM, Feb 24, 2011
New Delhi: BJP workers blockaded Jammu & Kashmir finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather's vehicle on Wednesday afternoon. All attempts by the bjp workers to hoist the Triclour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk may have been foiled but the event was not violence free. BJP workers were lathicharged outside the outside the party office in Jammu after they blockaded the vehicle of J&K finance minister. The incident happened immediately after Sushma Swaraj...
04:47 PM, Jan 26, 2011
