Policemen were seen mercilessly beating people inside a house.
Patna:
The brutal police brutality that made the British East India Company proud was caught on camera in Bihar’s Buxar district on Wednesday, where dozens of policemen raided sleeping farmers in their homes and brutally beat them with canes in the middle of the night.
Residents of Banarpur village said the police action was against a group of farmers who have been protesting for more than two months demanding better rates for their land being acquired by the state-run hydropower company in Chausa block of the district. were protesting.
The police said that they were first attacked by the farmers, a claim denied by the farmers. In CCTV footage released by the farmers, a group of policemen can be seen milling around outside a house before assaulting them.
Cellphone videos recorded by attackers inside a house show policemen brutally beating people, including women, and breaking down doors.
The farmers said the attack was led by Amit Kumar, a senior officer of the Mufassil police station, who was responding to a complaint filed by the SJVN Power Plant.
The police are yet to explain why they went to answer the complaint against the protest in the middle of the night after the farmers had gone home.
The farmers said they were protesting peacefully against the company for a fresh round of land acquisition for the project at the rates fixed about 12 years ago.