Why the hamhanded treatment?

Secondly, looking at the demands of the freedom fighters, we wonder what was so dangerous about these that the police had to prevent them progressing as soon as they came out with a procession. Among other things, they only wanted setting up of a plastic plant for a sister concern of Muktijodhha Kalyan Trust, which, in their words, was incurring loss for lack of a plastic plant. And lastly, since after all the representatives of the freedom fighters were allowed by the police themselves to hand over the memorandum to the PMO in the end, one simply cannot help wonder why such an appalling highhanded treatment was meted out?

Why there was such an inexplicable detour before allowing the submission of the charter of demands to the PMO? How would they explain the indiscriminate baton charging and clubbing of people, who were on wheelchairs wounding at least 20 of them. We want to know who was responsible for such inconsiderate and reckless police action on the freedom fighters. An inquiry on how such an atrocious thing could happen should definitely be on the cards.

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