Cop brutality on students outside RSS office triggers furore

A video of police thrashing a group of students with sticks and fists and dragging women by their hair outside RSS headquarters here during a protest over dalit student Rohith Vemula's suicide today triggered widespread outrage with Congress and AAP seeking action against the erring cops.
Delhi Police came under sharp attack from political parties and student groups as the video of Saturday's incident went viral on social media but RSS appeared to defend the security personnel, saying they must have done whatever they found was appropriate.
In the 30-second clip, apart from police, some men in civilian clothes are also seen beating up the protesters near RSS office in Jhandewalan in Central Delhi. The students who staged the protest and AAP alleged that the men were RSS workers.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal alleged the police force was being used as RSS and BJP's "private army" under a political dispensation that is at "war" with students across the country.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi targeted the Modi government over the "shocking attack" on students and insisted the demonstrators were "brutally" beaten as they were "protesting against the RSS".
A Delhi School of Social Work (DSW) student, who was at the receiving end of a police assault, alleged police took turns in "brutally" thrashing him and did not even let him sip water.

"I spotted few men, who were not in uniform, pulling few of our women activists. When I raised my voice against that, someone from the police counted 1,2,3 and launched an assault on us and cornered me.

"After the first round of assault I was sitting on a road divider. Friends offered me water. At that very moment police once again started beating me up. Yadhul Krishna who was with me fractured his hand," Samudra Sanghka, a final year MA student at DSW, told PTI.
Under fire, Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi appeared defensive and said he has ordered an inquiry into the incident which will include examining whether there was any "indiscretion".
Reacting to the allegations, in-charge of RSS media unit of Delhi Rajiv Tuli said, "No RSS worker was there at that time. If somebody feels that there was some highhandedness then there is option of inquiry, law. Police must have done whatever they found was appropriate.