DSP Shivakumar Budhathoki of Police Circle, Kirtipur says - Majid was arrested after obstructing police work at that time
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Three Gen-G leaders who had come to express their solidarity with the suffering after water entered the holding center in Kirtipur, where people who were stranded after a bulldozer was driven in a squatter settlement in Kathmandu, were arrested last Saturday. Among those arrested, Sarisma Thapa and Nelson Ghatani were released by the police after obtaining documents in the evening.
Majid Ansari, who was beaten and abused by the police, is still receiving treatment at Bed No. 309 of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj. The police have not yet given him any documents for his arrest.
Majid, a B.A. LLB student at Nepal Law Campus, had asked for an arrest warrant when the police beat him up and put him in a van on Saturday. But the police had instead abused him and told him not to engage in politics as a student.
Why was he taken into custody without giving him any documents, underwent medical examination, and why is the police still monitoring him? They are asking. DSP Shivkumar Budhathoki of Police Circle, Kirtipur had said that he was arrested after obstructing the police work at that time.
‘But I have not received the warrant, the police are coming and threatening me and asking me to sign a paper,’ Ansari told Kantipur from his hospital bed, ‘I have not agreed to sign such a paper.’
A police officer had come and told him that he was still under control. But Ansari had questioned how he could say that he was under control since he had not been arrested according to the law. He had repeated his demand for an arrest warrant.
He said that he was still in pain after being unnecessarily beaten up. ‘That day, suddenly the police grabbed him from behind and started beating him, and his vision became blurry,’ he said. ‘I couldn’t see well for a while.’ After that, he and three others were taken to the Kirtipur Police Station.
After the chase, the National Human Rights Commission team was also informed. ‘After that, we were kept in a room in the police office,’ recalls Thapa, one of the arrested. ‘After some time, we were taken to Kirtipur Hospital for a health check-up.’
He requested to get an X-ray, but the hospital staff initially refused. After the police gave permission, an X-ray was finally done, but after a CT scan was also required, he was referred to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj for further treatment.
By then, the other two arrested people had been released. ‘The police stayed in the hospital for 4 days, after he came inside the cabin and sat down, other lawyer friends had to ask him to sit outside,’ says Ansari, ‘the police finally left.’
He said that the police started beating him up when he peacefully protested or raised his voice on some issue. He says, ‘As a law student, I will go to court against this.’
Kathmandu Police spokesperson Pawan Kumar Bhattarai says that Ansari is not under the arrest or investigation of the Kathmandu Police.
‘He was not arrested before, but when he was going to manage the holding zone, there was a scuffle between two parties at the gate and the police took him to Kirtipur while removing him,’ he told Kantipur, ‘He said he was injured, then he was sent to Kirtipur Hospital, he said he had a fracture, that’s why he was sent to the teaching hospital.’
