The CPIML Uttar Pradesh state unit has demanded that a case should be registered against the police personnel guilty of the death of one of the two sisters in Chandauli who died during police beating, and they should be sent to jail.
The party said that on the one hand the Yogi government is pandering to all comforts for the Minister's son in jail who murdered farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri, while on the other hand its police commits every atrocity against people charged with far less serious crimes and even murders women in the name of nabbing criminals. In a statement issued on 2 May the party said that the police arrived at the home of an accused wanted by the court and brutally beat up his two daughters while searching the house. One of the daughters died due to the brutal beating. Later the Thana in-charge was suspended in order to suppress people's anger, but this action is not commensurate with the serious crime of murder. All the guilty personnel including the SO must be charged with murder and immediately sent to jail and given due punishment so that the victim's family gets justice.
The party further said that recently a court in a BJP-ruled state remarked, 'are we moving towards becoming a police state?' in connection with Jignesh Mevani's arrest. The party said that Uttar Pradesh under Yogi has already become a police state where the police directly pass verdicts. The Chandauli incident is the latest proof of this. Moreover, 'bulldozer justice' is also being meted out where the homes of minorities, dalits and adivasis are being razed and they are being evicted or notices are being slapped for eviction of long-settled families without alternative arrangements.
A CPIML team visited the aggrieved family on 4 April.
