Samajwadi Party's Richa Singh 'Brutally Attacked By ABVP, Cops'

Samajwadi Party youth leader Richa Singh said on Twitter early on Thursday that she was hospitalised after being beaten by members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad and the police in Allahabad on Tuesday. The tweet included a photo of Singh lying in a hospital bed.

“I was brutally attacked by Allahabad police and ABVP goons yesterday during a student’s protest at Allahabad University, I am suffering jaw and head injury and admitted in hospital,” the tweet said. It also alleged that the police had lodged an FIR against her on false charges. .. 

The incident took place when Singh and others were trying to hold a protest after SP leader Akhilesh Yadav was allegedly stopped at the Lucknow airport and was not given permission to fly to Allahabad where he was supposed to address students. Some other Twitter handles had said on Tuesday that Singh, who was earlier president of the Allahabad University Students’ Union, had been attacked... read more:
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/richa-singh-samajwadi-party-abvp_in_5c64f28fe4b0bcddd40e3d52?utm_hp_ref=in-homepage

see also
Principal, VP quit after Gujarat college trustees force cancellation of Jignesh Mewani event
Anushka Baruah - What Ramjas teaches // MSU Baroda Cancels Workshop on Caste citing Ramjas incident: Protest by Indian Cultural Forum Collective
The Instigator: MS Golwalkar’s virulent ideology underpins Modi’s India. By Hartosh Singh Bal

Popular posts from this blog

Third degree torture used on Maruti workers: Rights body

Haruki Murakami: On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning

The Almond Trees by Albert Camus (1940)

Albert Camus's lecture 'The Human Crisis', New York, March 1946. 'No cause justifies the murder of innocents'

Etel Adnan - To Be In A Time Of War

After the Truth Shower

Rudyard Kipling: critical essay by George Orwell (1942)