Mangaluru, Dec 6: Following the clashes which erupted between members of two different communities in Ulaibettu and Vamanjoor villages of Mangaluru taluk on Friday night, few families alleged brutal police atrocities against them including dragging men from the houses without supplying reasons and using foul language at the women in the middle of the night.
Around 14 Muslim women from different families living in Ulaibettu were admitted to the hospital following the police brutality and assaults by saffron activists earlier on Friday night.
All the patients admitted in the hospital reveal similar horrifying stories of saffron activists barging into their homes at around 11 p.m. on Friday night and assaulting the family members, followed by subsequent atrocities by police personnel at around 3 a.m. the same night.
The women revealed that activists belonging to saffron groups allegedly hammered at their doors and broke them open before entering their homes and threatening them with knives and rods.
Residents of an apartment at Ulaibettu, victims Hajira, Haseena, Ramlath, Rehana, Khateeja and others said that between 40-50 saffron activists barged into their houses in the night and demanded to know where the men were.
“Thrashing the furniture aside, some of the men even pushed us around and threatened us with knives and rods,” said Hajira. She alleges that the police came in the wee hours of the day and took away her son Shadik without telling them any reason. Haseena also alleges that close to 50 men broke into her house and thrashed around the furniture while threatening her family members.
Ramlath alleges that the activists broke the doors and windows of the house before entering and assaulting her children with rods. Rehana states that her husband Asif was brutally beaten by 10-15 saffron activists after they forcefully entered the house.
Haseena, wife of Mohammed Saleem, claims that apart from breaking and entering her house, men belonging to a Hindutva group made off with Rs 20,000 in cash she had kept in her cupboard.
Mubeena, another resident of Ulaibettu, alleged that the men broke into the house and took away a mobile phone and a gold chain, while Jameela, staying at her sister's place in the same area, recounted how the men pulled her by her hair and assaulted other family members.
Police assaulted us, dragged away our husbands, sons'
The same victims underwent another round of ordeal a few hours later, when the police entered their houses in a similar fashion and dragged away male family members to the station.
Speaking to coastaldigest.com, Mubeena stated between 3 a.m. to 4 a.m. police personnel demanded to enter her house and began beating up her husband Mayyaddi and Dawood before taking them away. She discloses that she narrowly escaped being assaulted by the personnel as her husband bore the brunt of the assault.
Another victim admitted in the hospital, Haseena, recalled that the police broke into her house and began beating up her brother Arafath Irfan, a student, and took him away along with her father Abdul Razaq and uncle. “They snatched our mobile phones and thrashed our furniture without any reason while we pleaded them to leave us alone. We were unaware of any clash that had taken place in the area,” she said, alleging police brutality.
“Close to 40 police personnel were in the house, without any female police constable in sight. They demanded to know where the men of the house were, before beating them up,” she said, suspecting a pre-planned scheme by the police and saffron activists.
Similarly, each of the 14 victims alleged that they were assaulted either by activists of a Hindutva group or the police or both.
It is said that altogether a total of 22 persons were arrested by the police, out of which 5 were subsequently left free. Mayyadi, Dawood, Irfan, Abdul Razaq, Mustafa, Shadik, Abdul Khader, Mohammed Mustafa, Badruddin and Sheikabba were among the ones alleged arrested by the police.
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