NCW seeks report on policemen assaulting protesting woman

National Commission for Women today wrote a letter to Bihar police chief P K Thakur seeking report on video clippings showing policemen physically assaulting a woman protesting against the eviction by a builder here.
"NCW in its letter has sought the DGP's reply on action taken against guilty policemen within seven days," NCW member Sushma Sahu told PTI today.
She questioned the absence of women police personnel in dealing with the protestors.
Sahu said she saw video clippings of the woman being forcefully pushed to the ground by policemen under the leadership of a senior police officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of police while she along with others resisted the builder's associates from evicting them from a piece of land on Exhibition Road here yesterday.

Taking note of the incident, the DGP has already entrusted Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj to conduct a probe.
Armed with sticks, associates of the builder forcibly evicted the dwellers on a temple land at Exhibition Road, barely 200 metre from Gandhi maidan police station, and assaulted them yesterday.
Later, police arrived and took on the protestors and physically assaulted the woman.