Lathis

Women also took to the streets armed with lathis, brooms, and kitchen utensils.

Police enter campus and library, lob tear gas, beat students with lathis and drags them out, some with their hands raised in the air.

The Head Constable who deposed before the Magistrate told that Jayaraj and Bennix were beaten until dawn and that there is bound to be blood marks in the lathis used by the police personnel.

The Judicial Magistrate in its report informed the Court that the other police officers were either indifferent or had attempted to intimidate the Magistrate when queries were made, including on where the lathis were, that was used for custodial torture.

Then they assaulted him with lathis and took away his mobile phone, motorcycle and Rs 900… Meanwhile, the father of the three reached the spot and said he (Tiwari) should be killed.

Along with the training to use lathis, the police are also getting trained in the new handgun drill, which also was being followed as per the archaic practice introduced by the British East India Company, when sword was the main weapon.

There are men who intrude upon this quietude, with their lathis and slogans of hate — a pattern that repeats itself whenever a specific community is massacred.

Recounting the incident, the eyewitnesses have stated that the policemen who reached the spot were equipped with service revolvers and lathis and were threatened by the accused with dire consequence if they intervened.