Ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal’s son. ANI photo
New Delhi, November 2
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday vent anger at policemen over the detention of army veteran Ram Kishan Grewal’s family members who alleged that they were beaten up and abused by cops at the hospital before being brought to the police station.In a tweet, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated that he has spoken to the deceased Army veteran’s son who was manhandled by police.
In a video shot inside the Mandir Marg police station where Rahul was detained after he was denied entry into RML Hospital to meet Grewal’s family, the Congress leader was seen confronting policemen.The 70-year-old ex-serviceman Ram Kishan Grewal from Haryana’s Bhiwani district ended his life yesterday by consuming poison on the lawns behind a government building in Janpath, the central area of the capital.
“Do you not feel ashamed? He is a son of an army veteran, he is his father… and you are arresting them?” a livid Rahul told policemen pointing towards the deceased soldier’s son and father.“What is your name? You think the family of India’s martyr should be arrested? Do you not feel ashamed,” Rahul asked a senior police officer at the police station where he was taken following his detention after he was denied entry into RML Hospital to meet Grewal’s family.(Follow The Tribune on Facebook; and Twitter @thetribunechd)“A martyr’s family is arrested. This is Modi ji’s India,” he earlier told reporters outside RML Hospital.”How can you arrest the son and father of martyr? And if you have not arrested them, then why are you not letting them go,” he said after his request for releasing Grewal’s family was turned down.”A new India is in the making, you have to identify it.What is happening in India today, you have to identify it. It is a result of their mentality. It is a particular type of mentality. It is an undemocratic type of mentality.” Rahul, who was keen to meet the ex-serviceman’s family, was requested by a police officer to leave the place in view of his security. He, in turn, demanded that the official tell the media what orders he had received.”They are telling me to go away from here and leave. I told you, a new India is being formed,” he said as high political drama unfolded outside the hospital.”Modi ji is so scared that he has ordered his Police to beat families of martyrs and detain political opponents,” the Congress said on its website after Rahul’s detention. — Agencies