CJP protest: After being held by Mumbai cops for hours, Dhurandhar’s Ayesha Khan released

Ayesha shared a video where it was seen that she was being pulled inside a police van as she continued to ask why she was being detained.

 

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“My hands are literally shivering right now. I’ve been detained in the police van just for standing on the road peacefully. I didn’t say a word. I didn’t even start the protest. I was just standing because my brother, my male friends were detained and we were just standing on the road. Me and two of my other female friends,” she said.

Ayesha Khan said approximately 15 police personnel, including women officers, surrounded her and the two friends and asked them to get into the police van. She said she repeatedly asked why they were being detained and received no answer. “I kept asking why we were being detained. We were just standing on the road. We hadn’t even started protesting. Nobody answered us,” she said.

 

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In a separate clip, Ayesha Khan was heard asking officers where they were taking the detained individuals. In another, she requested officers not to push her while she was being escorted. She alleged that she and her friends were forcibly taken to Worli Police Station.

Ayesha Khan said the officers at the police station spoke to them politely, but she questioned the conduct of the personnel at the protest site. She alleged that she and her friends were pushed during the detention and asked what law they had broken. She also claimed that only three of them were standing together and questioned why they were detained when, according to her, the restrictions being cited by the police had not yet come into effect.

Ayesha Khan released

Approximately three hours after Ayesha posted about being detained, she updated her social media to inform her followers that she had been released. She shared, “I have been released, going to get my brother released now from Rafi Ahmed Kidwai Police Station. We were all taken to different parts of the city, intentionally. Let me repeat, for doing nothing.”

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Many celebrities across the country, including Shabana Azmi, Prakash Raj, Amol Parasher have been attending the CJP protests in Delhi. Several others, including Ratna Pathak Shah, Seema Pahwa, Naseeruddin Shah, among others, have been speaking up about the students’ right to protest.