Left parties condemned the continued police action against protesters in Delhi on Sunday (October 11, 2026), which saw Rajya Sabha MP John Brittas of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) get injured as police detained and forcibly dragged him to a detention van while he was speaking to the media.
SFI activists have reported that they were tortured inside police vehicles, some of which are mobile jails with separate cells inside. Saji and Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) leader Jaick C. Thomas, were assaulted inside police vehicles. “They have turned police vans into torture camps. Women are being cruelly attacked and detained for hours inside mobile jails,” Mr. Mr. We will forge ahead until victory in this protest to reclaim the democracy of our nation! Mr. “Neither these demands nor the criticism of public institutions can be treated as a licence for the State to resort to intimidation. No lights in the bus. Male officers surrounding women activists!!! The government has stooped so low to save the ‘vote chor’ Gyanesh Kumar!!! https://t.co/F67Q86c09T CPI general secretary D. The Police have turned Delhi into a war zone, brutally attacking and assaulting students, both men and women, and carrying them away. STOP THIS VIOLENCE NOW!
Brittas, who continues to be under treatment as of Sunday (October 11, 2026) evening, said in a post on X: “Even if we are dragged through the streets, beaten with lathis, trampled with boots, or choked to death, we will not step back even an inch.
“The police have turned Delhi into a war zone,” Mr. Baby said, adding that scores of activists from the party’s student wing, the Students’ Federation of India (SFI), including its president Adarm M. Baby said. Brittas in a letter marked to President of India, Chief Justice of India and Rajya Sabha Chairman, said, that the timing of the “brutal police assault” on him was significant, considering it occurred within hours of Supreme Court’s directions to the administration on protests. “The incident raises grave questions concerning personal liberty, the right to peaceful expression, police accountability and compliance with the constitutional safeguards that this Hon’ble Court has time and again upheld and reaffirmed through its authoritative judgments,” he wrote. The demand for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation is being made through democratic means, he said. Raja said that the police crackdown seen on the roads of Delhi over the last few days was unprecedented. “All detainees must be immediately released and the government must withdraw all FIRs filed against them,” he said.
