Imphal, July 30: North-East Forum for International Solidarity (NEFIS) today decried police excess towards a group of students who were staging democratic protest under the aegis of the KSA at Khwairamband Keithel near Johnstone Hr.sec School yesterday.
In a press statement the student body said that lathi charge to students who were in school uniform, firing tear gas shells and pelting stone inside the school campus is not the way that police should act in a democratic country.
Detention of student leader in democratic protest is not a sign of healthy democracy and government should not suppress the democratic voice of the people using state force, the statement said.
While condemning the excess committed by the Manipur police the NEFIS demanded treatment of injured students in the police action.
Police excess decried; Don’t suppressed democratic voice – NEFIS
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