Thrashing victim tries to barge into Punjab
assembly
Wednesday March 13, 2013 09:41:53 PM,
IANS
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Chandigarh:
Congress legislators clashed with security personnel and staff in
the Punjab assembly complex as a woman who was beaten by Punjab
Police personnel Wednesday tried to barge into the assembly.
The commotion started when the victim, accompanied by Congress
legislators, was taken to the Congress Legislature Party office in
the assembly complex. The security and assembly staff reached the
office to take her away as she had entered without valid entry
pass.
Congress legislators objected, which resulted in a clash between
them and security personnel.
Some Congress legislators in the assembly shouted slogans against
the government and staged a walkout.
Speaker Charanjit Singh Atwal had to adjourn the house till
afternoon.
The woman could not reach the assembly hall. Leader of the
opposition and Congress leader Sunil Jakhar was with the
21-year-old woman when she tried to enter the assembly.
The woman, accompanied by her father, said she had come to the
assembly to demand justice. Punjab Police Monday arrested two
policemen who had beaten and abused her.
"She did not have an entry pass. We stopped her for security
reasons," a security official told IANS.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said that the Congress
had "disgraced Indian democracy through their shocking and
deplorable conduct in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha today".
"They have made it a day of national disgrace and the darkest hour
for parliamentary democracy in the country. They acted as a
leaderless mob out on a rampage for arson, looting and street
violence, breaking all norms of civilised conduct," Badal said.
He said that the Congress leadership had indulged in a breach of
security by allowing unauthorised entry into the high security
complex.
"I am shocked that the attack on officials of the watch and ward
staff happened under the leadership of senior Congressmen,
including the leader of opposition," Badal said.
The assembly complex is a high-security zone manned by para-military
forces and security personnel from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh.
The woman was slapped, pushed, abused and hit with a baton by
uniformed policemen in Punjab's frontier district of Tarn Taran
March 3.
Four to five police personnel were caught on camera assaulting her
and her father after she reportedly complained against some taxi
and truck drivers harassing her near a marriage hall.
Badal had last week ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.
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