Bihar Police torturing Dalits: CPI(ML) legislator

Dalits and the poor, including women were dragged out of their houses and beaten up in Tarsan village of Male District, Bihar, according to legislator Sudama Prasad.

Prasad belongs to the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) [CPI(ML)] is a Member of the Legislative Assembly, having being elected to the Male constituency.

According to Prasad, women and children were also not spared by the police, who beat up the Dalits in the presence of administrative officials. After visiting Tarsan, the legislator told mediapersons that the women in the village told him that men have left the village, fearing atrocities by the police, as the men are the main target.

Prasad flayed the Nitish Kumar led government as “the police and the administration is against the poor and stands by the feudal lords”. He claimed that even opposition legislators, who speak up against police rule, are being attacked by the police. “The movement for the protection of the poor and to give them justice will be intensified,” he said.

The CPI(ML) legislator had demanded that all cases against the Dalits and the poor, should be scrapped, those arrested should be released, those injured in the police atrocities should be given free medical treatment and action against the police and administrative officers responsible for the atrocities.