Doctors in arms
According to all their accounts, doctors who were protesting outside Raj Bhavan on Saturday were 'terrorised' by the police. They maintain that the police gave protestors no prior warning before starting the lathi-charge.
Pramod, a 22-year-old student of Grant Medical College, who interns at J J Hospital, has a broken arm from the lathi-charge. "At Walkeshwar (where Raj Bhavan is located), the police started beating us and arrested those in the first couple of rows," he recounted. "The rest of us started to disperse, but we were actually chased down the road by constables with lathis in their hands."
"They were dragging the women by their hair and beating them too. There were no lady constables around and when I tried to help one of the women, a constable started to beat me up as well," said Prince Pandey, also from the Grant Medical College.
"I am physically challenged and find it difficult to walk but despite this, I was chased until Chowpatty and beaten all the way," he said.
They both said that the police chased protestors through heavy traffic -- 'when we could have met with an accident'.
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