Bengaluru: Police yesterday resorted to &lsquo;mild&rsquo; lathicharge to disperse ABVP activists staging a protest in front of the Amnesty International India office here demanding arrest of those who allegedly raised anti-India slogans at an Amnesty event.
<img title="Police baton charge ABVP activists during a protest against the Amnesty International India in Bengaluru. Pic/PTI" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/aug/ABVP-lathi.jpg" alt="Police baton charge ABVP activists during a protest against the Amnesty International India in Bengaluru. Pic/PTI" /> Police baton charge ABVP activists during a protest against the Amnesty International India in Bengaluru. Pic/PTI
Several ABVP activists were injured, with a girl student fainting in the commotion before she was rushed to a hospital, police said, adding they detained many activists during the crackdown on the protest. Additional Commissioner of Police Bengaluru East P Harishekaran said, &ldquo;With two bottles of petrol they tried to burn an effigy in front of Amnesty International here. We had in prior warned them against any effigy burning as it is a residential area and from the security point of view.&rdquo; ABVP National General Secretary Vinay Bidre said, &ldquo;We demanded that police vacate Amnesty staff who were recording our protest from their office. We told police we won&rsquo;t cause any harm to them. We did not try to barge into their premises and tried to burn Amnesty's effigy, but police unnecessarily used force on us.&rdquo;

Police yesterday resorted to &lsquo;mild&rsquo; lathicharge to disperse ABVP activists staging a protest in front of the Amnesty International India office here demanding arrest of those who allegedly raised anti-India slogans at an Amnesty event

Amnesty Sedition row: Cops 'mildly' lathicharge ABVP during protests

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Police yesterday resorted to &lsquo;mild&rsquo; lathicharge to disperse ABVP activists staging a protest in front of the Amnesty International India office here demanding arrest of those who allegedly raised anti-India slogans at an Amnesty event

Amnesty Sedition row: Cops 'mildly' lathicharge ABVP during protests

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