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Indian police uses AK-47 rifles to
fire into crowd of teachers near CM residence
WSN Network
Rohtak:
As a few hundred
teachers gathered near the residence of Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh
Hooda, asking that their services be regularised, the police knew no
better than load its guns and fire into the crowd — the only means
it could think of to counter their immediate demand of being allowed
to submit a memorandum.
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Why did she
die?
Raj Rani
died not only of the bullet wound but also for want of medical
aid. For a long time, the cop did not allow anyone to go near
the woman dying on the roadside. Then they coolly left the
scene. A few teachers then lifted and bundled her into a maxi
cab. “It wouldn’t start and we had to push-start it. She was
declared brought dead at hospital,” said a teacher. |
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One teacher lay
dead, many got bullets in their legs and shoulders, and scores were
left injured by lathi charge, teargas shells, water cannon and
stampede that followed. The police was quick to claim that some
people in the crowd carried guns and they had fired, forcing it to
counter the firing. It also claimed the woman was killed by gunshots
from the crowd. It took another 48 hours for it to be established
that not only the 25-year-old teacher Raj Rani died of a police
bullet that the cops even used AK-47 assault rifles to fire.
Shamelessly, senior police officers admitted on Tuesday that AK-47
were indeed used but claimed it was only to fire in the air.
Experts in
hospitals said they have referred the matter to senior officials and
there was little doubt that many injuries were from bullets by
assault rifles. Hundreds of teachers had to be hospitalised for
treatment of injuries. They were part of the around 5,000 teachers
of Haryana Atithi Adhyapak Sangh who have been demanding
regularization of their services and planned to submit a memorandum
to the chief minister.
10 September 2008
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