Maharashtra women rights ground demand action over alleged police brutality, casteist abuse in Pune 

Maharashtra Stree Mukti Parishhad took an emergency action against the defendant officers after Pune’s Kothrud police could not find a cassette and sexual harassment by the Kothrud police against three women. On Monday, August 11, 2025, a six -member delegation complained to the police headquarters and rights commissions in Mumbai and demanded justice and protection for survivors.

At a press conference held at Mumbai Marathi Journalists Association, activist Hasina Khan claimed that the police had entered a rental house in the Kothud region around 13:00 on 1 August, attacked three women (Dalits) and a missing person looking for their belongings without order. Khan said, “They searched their mobile phones, wardrobes and their underwear, touched them inappropriate and continuously passed the caste -caste slurry. Women were illegally detained until 19:00 and they were physically and mentally tortured,” he said.

Activist Chayaika Shah said that Chhatirapati Sambhajinagar was faced with harassment from his mother -in -law, a married resident of a married resident, and stayed with his friends at Pune on July 31 before moving to a stop Sakhi center. A retired police sub -inspector, my mother -in -law, was allegedly sent officers to their friends and threatened them and threatened them and detained them. “Inquiry, in the presence of the retired officer and the woman’s mother -in -law, only because of the shelter in a closed room without CCTV cameras took place,” he said.

The women were released on August 1 at 19:30, and then tried to file a fracture within the scope of the planned castes and the planned tribes (savagery prevention), but they were rejected by police officers. On August 4, KoThrud police issued a statement stating that a preliminary investigation was “verified” and that a case could not be held within the scope of the law of atrocities.

Ms. Khan said that the survivors have been evacuated by the landlords since then and that they stayed with the members of the organization in Pune and met with tremendous trauma. Political clothes, including NCP (SP), led by Vanchit Bahujan AGHADİ and Sharad Pawar, also demanded a lawsuit against the defendant officers.

On Monday, Delegation, Police General Manager, Mumbai City Collector and Maharashtra Human Rights Commission visited the Human Rights Commission, and the letters requesting emergency legal proceedings within the scope of the law of atrocities and the IPC presented an unconditional police apology. Ms. Khan said, “When we approach them to hear us, it is disappointed that when we approach them. None was ready to meet or hear us. The city of Mumbai, Aanchal Goyal’s female collector did not show much interest to resolve concerns. Constitutional provisions were violated by the police themselves.

In the letter presented to the authorities, the organization demanded the dignity of people who were unjustly victims by the police action in this case. He also asked the Minister of Interior and the Prime Minister to take action immediately to provide justice for them. “Emergency action should be taken against police officers who are interested in harassing these young women. Police staff and civil servants who apply for bowl abuse, planned castes and planned tribes (prevention law, 1989 and Indian Penal Code. He was harassed and harassed to women who were harassed, women who were harassed, women who were harassed, women who were harassed.

In addition, the government should ensure that young women have the right to protect the employment, housing, economic and social abuse, and the police administration should apologize for all these young women for all the difficulties they have experienced due to this brutality.