Then, at the station, I told them, ‘Please don’t make me strip, my underwear has a hole’. Tikamgarh Police have denied that the farmers were beaten inside the station and said that a probe into the stripping has begun. Balwan was among those returning to Varma Manz, Varma Dang and Varma Tal, all villages near Tikamgarh, after attending the rally. Balwan’s neighbour Pushpendra Singh, 40, said he was beaten and told to strip despite telling the police that he was not involved in the violence. The farmers alleged that police also got them to cut the “sacred threads” tied to their wrists and made them remove their lockets.

Source: Indian Express October 05, 2017 23:25 UTC