“The police then pushed me out here from the bus and put me in an auto, but refused to accompany me,” he claimed.
Later, Brittas, sitting on the footpath after being deboarded from the police bus, told news agency PTI that he and another man were forcibly pushed and pinned down into their seats and suffocated. Struggling to breathe following the ordeal, the CPM leader said that a DCP from the police control room saw what had happened, called the police officers on the bus and told them to let him go as he was an MP. “The police then pushed me out here from the bus and put me in an auto, but refused to accompany me,” he claimed. A man, identifying himself as Sajid Hussain, who was also in the bus with the MP, told news agency PTI that the police behaved very poorly toward the CPM leader. “I came here after hearing that our student activists have been picked up by the police,” Brittas said.
The CPM MP was forcibly carried by CRPF personnel to a waiting police bus and pushed into a seat, even as he repeatedly urged them not to touch him, reminding them that he was a Member of Parliament. NEW DELHI: CPM Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas on Sunday alleged that Delhi Police and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel brutally manhandled him while he was on his way to attend the CJP-called protest at Jantar Mantar against Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, according to news agency PTI.