Suspened Aurangabad commissioner — Muslims

The activists, who were detained in the CP’s office premises for holding a rasta roko, were also charged with trying to forcibly enter the police residential colonies and indulging in arson.

“`You want Babri? Take this,’ ACP Dabhade said repeatedly while he brutally assaulted our activists. Activists were beaten up till they fell unconscious. Even women and young children were not spared,” statedMohemmed Iqbal Ansari, the president of the MKS, at a press meet here.

“According to the bye-laws one is not supposed to hit above the knee. I have no words to express how brutal the police were to us,” he said. A MKS activist, Ziauddin Siddique, who claimed to have lost 70 per cent of his vision in the left eye as a result of the injuries he sustained in the lathi-charge spoke about the police brutality.

The chief of AMMRPB, a federation of 45 Muslim organisations from across the State, also demanded the suspension of Aurangabad DCP Raghunath Khaire and ACP Sudhir Dabhade.

Ansari claimed that MKS activists had decided to court arrest on the day. However, the police detained the protestors at the Vikram Stadium. “Of course it was guarded by the police at the entrance. The stadium is about 400 feet away from the police residential colonies. How could we have forced ourselves in there? The police suddenly began beating people,” he said.