The CPI(M) Delhi state committee has demanded immediate action, including criminal proceedings against the Station House Officer(SHO) and other police personnel of the Ambedkar Nagar police station for the illegal detention and custodial torture of two dalit youth, leading to severe injuries to them. The two youth were picked up by the police from their homes on the night of August 4. They have no criminal record. They were not informed of any charges against them neither were their families informed. They were taken to the thana(police station) and kept there for two days and nights. They were severely beaten. The police were trying to get them to confess to a crime about which they had no knowledge. When the youth refused to give any such statement, the police asked them to implicate some other people including a "sonar" in the area. They said if you want to be released then you better say that so and so was involved. To get such a statement the police put a revolver in the mouth of Sudhir and threatened to pull the trigger. The police also demanded money from the youth. In the meanwhile the families moved the metropolitan magistrate of the appropriate court who demanded an explanation from the police because of which the youth were released. The police admitted that they had "taken the youth to the thana but had released them at 5.30 p.m." The police have lied to the court. The magistrate had also asked for a medical report. This examination was done in a government hospital. The medical report confirms the presence of several injuries, fractures, multiple bruising due to beating, cuts, abrasions, bleeding from the nose, hand sprain, swelling of the face etc.

The CPI(M) demands compensation for the victims. It demands immediate action against the police officers and personnel concerned.