‘Beaten With Leather Whip’: Members of Student Groups Allege Harrowing Torture in Detention by Delhi Police Special Cell
Atul Ashok Howale | 01 August 2025 | The Wire
New Delhi: Members of the Delhi-based student organisation Bhagat Singh Chhatra Ekta Manch (BSCEM) and the Forum Against Corporatisation and Militarisation (FACAM) have alleged that at least six individuals associated with them, and one person working with Nazariya Magazine, were detained and assaulted by the Delhi Police’s Special Cell without due process.
The individuals, aged between 19 and 26 years of age, have claimed they were subjected to extreme physical and mental torture between July 9 and July 21, under the guise of “interrogation” by the special cell over the whereabouts of an IAS officer’s daughter….