By Nikita Jain
“They forced me to strip naked, forced me to open my legs and hit me with a belt on my private part,” said Dalit activist Shiv Kumar, who was recently released by the Delhi Special Cell.
The ten activists who were allegedly kidnapped by the Delhi Police from various locations in the city have alleged they were tortured, beaten, stripped, and sexually assaulted by the authorities.
On March 12, a rights group said that one student activist and two labour activists were allegedly abducted by some police officers in civilian clothes. Kumar was one of them.
“We were waiting for a meeting near Dyal Singh College when a few people came asking our names. When I told mine, they pushed me into a car and covered my eyes with a cloth,” Kumar told Maktoob after he was released.
Kumar said that he was not aware of where he was being taken. After their arrests, seven more activists, including students, were picked up and allegedly abducted in the same way. All of them have alleged that there was no warrant.
Kumar alleged that as soon as they reached a location, he started getting abused and beaten up.
Connection to previous case
Kumar alleged that the Delhi Special Cell, along with other agencies including IB and NIA, kept asking him about Vallika.
Vallika Varshri is an activist who went “underground” after she alleged—in a letter—that she was being hounded by her mother Archana Verma, an IAS officer at the Joint Secretary level.
This story was originally published in maktoobmedia.com. Read the full story here.
