15 arrested from Meghalaya BJP leader’s ‘brothel’ move NHRC against police

Fifteen people who were arrested from the farmhouse of a Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Meghalaya have petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment by the police.

One of the 15 said he managed to get bail on August 7 but his differently-abled fiancee was still in jail for shifting to the farmhouse for a night because of space issues at a rented accommodation after some relatives arrived.

Most of the other complainants said they were outside the premises of the farmhouse when the police herded them. A woman among them said she and six others were often slapped by the investigating officer as well as the jail warden.