BHOPAL
: Eighty-year-old
Kamlabai Mewade
would like to meet the
policemen
who
beat her up
in her home on Friday.
"They were younger than my grandsons. I want to ask them why they hit me," the Phanda Kala resident, nursing a fractured arm, told TOI on Saturday. Her husband, an 83-year-old, sat quietly next to her, his legs bandaged.
A photograph of four-five cops beating Kamlabai in her courtyard, carried by a Hindi daily, has gone viral. She remembers police shouting, "Buddhi pathrav karva rahi hai, aag lagwa rahi hai (old woman, you are provoking stone pelting and torching of vehicles)," as they barged into her home, lathis swinging.
A few hundred metres away,
police were under attack by a mob of farmers
, sending jitters through the administration in Bhopal, barely 25km away.
"I was sitting in my house along with my husband, sons and grandsons when police barged in. They accused me of hiding stone pelters inside my house. I denied, and said they were free to look around but they started beating me and my husband with sticks," she told TOI on Friday evening.
Her husband, Shivnarain, said, "I was lying on my cot when policemen entered our house. They started abusing us and assaulting us despite our pleading that we were not rioters." Both their sons and four grandsons were also beaten up, the elderly couple says.
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