List of cases of police brutality in India

This is a list of notable cases of police brutality in India. This list also includes events from the British Raj.

• 1919: On 13 April 1919, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place where police killed hundreds.
• 1930: On 12 December 1930, Bombay cotton mill worker Babu Genu Said was crushed by a truck at the order of police. He was an active participant in the protests, organized by Indian independence activists against the import of foreign made cloth. His death resulted in a huge wave of anger, strikes, and protests throughout Bombay.
• 1980: The Bhagalpur blindings was an incident in 1979 and 1980 in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India when police blinded 31 undertrials (or convicted criminals, according to some versions), by pouring acid into their eyes.
• 1982: On 11 January, the first encounter of Bombay Police was completed. A Gangster who scored 78% from Kiriti College, Bombay, Manya Surve was killed without giving him proper chance to defend or surrender. Police fired 25 bullets on his chest but his strength kept him alive for about 1 hour. The movie, Shootout at Wadala, is based on this case.
• 1987: The Hashimpura massacre took place on 22 May 1987, during the Hindu-Muslim riots in Meerut city in Uttar Pradesh state, India, when 19 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) allegedly rounded up 42 Muslim youths from the Hashimpura mohalla (locality) of the city, took them in truck to the outskirts, near Murad Nagar, in Ghaziabad district, where they were shot and their bodies were dumped in water canals. A few days later dead bodies were found floating in the canals.
• 1994: The Rampur Tiraha firing involved police firing on unarmed Uttarakhand activists at Rampur Tiraha (crossing) in Muzaffarnagar district in Uttar Pradesh in India on the night of 1–2 October 1994. The activists, part of the agitation for the separate state of Uttarakhand, were going to Delhi to stage a dharna at Raj Ghat on Gandhi Jayanti, the following day, when alleged unprovoked police firing in the night of 1 October led to the death of six activists, and some women were allegedly raped and molested in the ensuing melee.
• 1994: The Koothuparamba firing was a police action on 25 November 1994, in the Kannur district of Kerala. The firing happened after the inauguration of the Co-operative Urban Bank’s evening branch, when the DYFI protested against Communist Marxist Party (CMP) leader and Kerala’s Minister, M.V. Raghavan. The police fired at the crowd for both the protection of the Minister and public and private property. Five DYFI activists were dead and six people were injured.
• 1999: Manjolai Labourers massacre was brutal police action on a procession taken out in support of agitating tea estate workers, claimed 17 lives in Thirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.^[1][2]
• 2003: The Muthanga incident was a brutal police action on Adivasis who had gathered under Adivasi Gothra Mahasabha (ADMS) in protest to the Kerala Government's delay in allotting them land, which had been contracted in October 2001. Two fatalities were officially confirmed, however the government later put the death toll at 5.^[3][4] More than 15 Adivasis fatally wounded.^[5]
• 2006: Police opened fire on people protesting against land acquisition for SEZ of Videocon at Maan village in Pune.^[6]
• 2009: Police opened fire on Muslims at the fishing village Beemapally in Trivandrum District, Kerala during a communal clash killing 6 and injuring 46^[7]
• 2009 23 July (khwairamband market, Imphal) Manipur police commandos killed an unarmed youth Ch Sanjit Meitei in an alleged encounter and later claiming to seize a pistol on him on the ensued encounter a pregnant lady Rabina devi was also killed which the police claimed she was shot during the cross fire.
• 2011: The police opened fire on protesters protesting against the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant and killed one of the protesters.^[8]
• 2011: The Forbesganj firing was an act of state brutality in which four villagers were killed near Forbesganj, a town in Bihar, India, on 3 June 2011. An inquiry into the incident, conducted by reputed NGO ANHAD, suggests a role of politicians from the Bharatiya Janata Party in the killings. The residents of the village of Bhajanpur were protesting the grant of land to a factory owned by the son of Bharatiya Janata Party politician Ashok Agarwal.
• 2015: 2015 Andhra shootout was an incident in the Seshachalam forest in Chittoor District, Andhra Pradesh that killed 20 suspected woodcutters.^[9]
• 2018: Sterlite Protest Firing^[10] was an incident in Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu where 13 unarmed protestors were killed by the Tamil Nadu Police.^[11]

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