New Delhi: A call given by Delhi Solidarity Group and Nagrik Ekta Manch, AISA and others for candle light vigil at India Gate in memory of those killed at Peshawar school attack was not tolerated by Delhi Police.
Delhi police disrupted the whole programme and also used mild force on men and women. There were no women police officials but men not only misbehaved but also snatched away the candle. Once Swami Agnivesh joined the March police allowed public to move out of the radial on the main road, but there they cordoned off the whole area and then forcefully arrested Swami Agnivesh, Prof Apoorvanand, JNU president Ashutosh Kumar, Delhi Solidarity Group Convener Sanjeev Kumar, Women’s activist Purnima Gupta, farmers leader and NAPM convener Bhupender Singh Rawat and 15 others.
They are all detained at Parliament Street police station. Women activists were picked up by men police and now even in evening they are all at a police station,this says a lot about Delhi Police.
Other vigil participants then tried to stop the bus which was carrying those arrested.