#Thread on what has turned out to be a five-part investigation from Bihar on how the police have brutalised muslims for participating in the anti CAA and NRC protests in the town of Aurangabad. Some have been terrorised for merely living close to the protest site
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In the first part, firstpost.com/india/in-bihar… I wrote how the police indulged in religious profiling, barged into houses, asked Muslims if they wanted Azaadi and even manhandled women in the absence of female constables. They arrested 46 people on the day.
The second part looked at the video footage where the police are caught on camera vandalising public and private property, for which the police had blamed protestors firstpost.com/india/watch-in…
The third part revealed how the police had arrested 13 minors and passed them off as adults in the FIR firstpost.com/india/bihar-po… The kids spent a month in adult prisons with hardened criminals before being transferred to a juvenile home.
In the fourth part, I focused on the details of the police investigation and the loopholes it had. For example, the main accused, according to the FIR, is arrested twice from two different places. This , and many more gems here. firstpost.com/india/police-p…
For the fifth and last part, I spoke to the minors that spent a month in adult prisons, where they talked about the trauma they faced and the treatment police meted out to them firstpost.com/india/caa-prot…
