Bollywood actress Shwara Bhasker, prominent human rights activist Kavita Krishnan and other twitter users have expressed shock and outrage over the report of minor boys suffering from the rectal bleeding in the police torture and demanded immediate probe into this alleged rape under the police custody in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar.
On December 20, Maulana Asad Raza Hussaini was allegedly tortured in police custody. According to a report in The Telegraph, around 100 students of him, from the Saadat hostel-cum-orphanage in Muzaffarnagar, were also tortured and some of them has suffered from the rectal bleeding. Many of them were minors.
The Telegraph article quotes a local politician to say that the boys who are aged between 14-21 were at times denied access to the toilet. Some of them, he alleged, had “suffered rectal bleeding from the torture”.
Now, the news report has caught the attention of the Twitterati, sparking outrage. A photo of the cleric, with his body showing signs of brutality is also doing the rounds on social media.
Many including Swara Bhaskar condemned the incident and called for immediate investigation of the allegations.