Yogendra Yadav detained, questions Delhi Police brutality

Yogendra Yadav and several volunteers were released by the police this morning but they refused to leave the police station protesting against the brutality.

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Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav.

Swaraj Abhiyan leader Yogendra Yadav was detained by the Delhi Police late Monday night after refusing to vacate Jantar Mantar where a protest is currently underway by farmers from across the country.

“I have been beaten up, manhandled, dragged, pushed and arrested at the Parliament street police station,” Yadav tweeted at around 1 am this morning.

Senior Supreme Court lawyer and Swaraj Abhiyan co-founder Prashant Bhushan along with several volunteers arrived at the police station to determine under what section Yadav and 96 others were arrested.

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On Tuesday morning, Yadav and the volunteers were released by the police but they refused to leave the police premises protesting against the police brutality, questioning the need for the Delhi Police to resort to such violence in the middle of the night. The protest will now be held outside the Parliament Street police station.

“Is standing peacefully with a Hal an offence? We were not obstructing traffic, were willing to cooperate with any reasonable condition,” Yadav tweeted.

Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh arrived in the capital on Sunday in 150 tractors as part of the ‘Jai Kisan Andolan’. But the police initially did not allow the farmers to enter the capital. The police said tractors were not allowed on the roads of the capital, said Anupam Singh, spokesperson, Swaraj Abhiyan.

Is standing peacefully with a Hal an offence? We were not obstructing traffic, were willing to cooperate with any reasonable condition.

— Yogendra Yadav (@_YogendraYadav) August 10, 2015

Yogendra Yadav moved away by Police while he was addressing the media from the Police Station. pic.twitter.com/Qw7ENrKaNj

— ANI (@ANI_news) August 11, 2015

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