Police Lathi-charge Sikhs

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Protests by Sikhs turn violent, police use lathi-charge

Press Trust of India

New Delhi, August 10, 2005

Demonstrations by Sikhs seeking punishment to the culprits of 1984 anti-Sikh riots continued in the Capital for the second day on Wednesday with police using lathi-charge to quell agitators near Parliament in which several persons were injured.

The protestors from the Sikh resettlement colonies of Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri, Tilak Vihar and Fatehnagar, including widows of those killed in 1984, gathered at the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib.

As they started marching towards Parliament raising slogans against the Government, police stopped them upon which the protestors allegedly turned violent.

They allegedly broke the windowpanes of a Police Control Room (PCR) van after which the police lathi-charged them.

Several protestors were injured in the incident and atleast two were administered first-aid on the spot.

However, a senior police officer said the policemen exercised restraint.

Later, the protestors gathered outside the Parliament Street police station and burnt an effigy of Congress leader Jagdish Tytler and copies of the Action Taken Report on the Nanavati Commission's observations.

They also tried to break the barricades after which police used water cannons on them.

Alleging that the ATR was an "eye-wash", the protestors also demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

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