‘So that don’t commit suicide’: MP cop on stripping journal, 7 others

Bhopal: A 36-year-old journal on Thursday alleged that he and seven others were stripped and thrashed at a police station in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi drict, after they were arrested for staging a protest against the arrest of a theatre art.The purported incident took place on April 2 and came to light on Thursday when semi-nude photos of the eight arrested people went viral. HT could not verify the authenticity of the photos.Journal Kanishk Tiwari, who runs a YouTube channel, said he and a few Congress workers and other theatre artes were arrested on April 2 for protesting the arrest of theatre arte Neeraj Kunder at Sidhi police station.According to police, Kunder was arrested for allegedly making obscene remarks against Bharatiya Janata Party (MLA) Kedarnath Shukla and his son, Guru Dutt, on social media.Tiwari alleged that he and others were stripped and thrashed at the police station.“Police removed my clothes and thrashed me. They took photos and tried to circulate them on social media… they arrested me for supporting a reputed arte,” Tiwari, who was released on bail, along with the others, on Wednesday, said.“In the past, I had made several revelations, including how a local MLA failed to construct roads and provide water to residents, on my YouTube channel.”Police, however, said that Tiwari and seven others were arrested as they were creating a ruckus in the police station.“Kunder, director of Indravati Natya Sansthan (a local drama institute), was arrested for continuously defaming Shukla and his son. Kunder had made a fake Facebook profile for this purpose. He was arrested on April 2 under section 419 (impersonation) and 420 (cheating) of theIndian Penal Code and under sections 66C and 66D of the IT Act,” Sidhi Kotwali police station in-charge Mukesh Soni said.
सवाल- आपने थाने में पत्रकार व उनके सहयोगियों के कपड़े क्यों उतरवाए?सीधी पुलिस का जवाब – ‘कोई न्यूड नहीं है, सभी ने अंडरवियर पहने हुए है, कोई फांसी ना लगा ले, ये सुरक्षा की दृष्टि से कदम उठाया’ pic.twitter.com/A5L0gZp5k6— News24 (@news24tvchannel) April 7, 2022
Soni dismissed the journal’s charge that all the eight arrested people were thrashed police. “Their clothes were taken off to check them and this is a normal… They were not thrashed at the police station.Soni also told reporters that it was incorrect to say that the accused were nude. “They were in their underwear,” he said, according to a clip tweeted News 24 channel The police officer also said their clothes were removed so that they did not use them to commit suicide.

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