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This is a list of notable cases ofpolice brutality inIndia. This list also includes events from theBritish Raj.

• ?? September 1895 – In Old Dhule Township, Maharashtra, Khambete Guruji, inspired by Lokmanya Tilak, startedSarvajanik Ganeshotsav. On the day of Anant Chaturdashi in 1895, the GaneshVisarjan procession passed from the vicinity of the Sai Masjid, and communal altercations between Hindus and Muslims ensued. To control the riot, the police open fired on the crowd killing and wounding many. Till date, the Ganpati temple is known as the Khuni (lit. Bloody) Ganpati. However it acts as a symbol of communal harmony with both Hindus and Muslims participating in the Ganeshotsave^[1]
• 15 April 1919 – After theJallianwala Bagh massacre, protests occurred inGujranwala against the killings of civilians at Amritsar. Police and aircraft were used against the protestors, resulting in at least 379 deaths and leaving more than a thousand people injured.^[2]
• 12 December 1930 –Bombay cotton mill workerBabu Genu Said was crushed by a truck at the order of police. He was an active participant in the protests, organized by Indian independence activists against the import of foreign made cloth. His death resulted in a huge wave of anger, strikes, and protests throughout Bombay.

• 13 June 1959 – TheAngamaly firing involved police firing at a group of people marching to the police station protesting against the incumbent Communist government. The firing killed seven people and injured many others.^[3]

• 25 March 1966 –Pravir Chandra Bhanj Deo, first Oriya ruler and 20th Maharaja of Bastar state, was killed in police firing at the steps of his own palace at Jagdalpur along with many others.^[4]

• 1976 – TheRajan case.
• 18 April 1976 – TheTurkman gate demolition and firing.
• 1979 to 1980 – TheBhagalpur blindings was an incident inBhagalpur in the state of Bihar, India when police blinded 31 undertrials (or convicted criminals, according to some versions), by pouring acid into their eyes.

• 20 April 1981 – The1981 Indravelli massacre was an incident where a gathering ofGond Adivasis, some organised by theKondapalli Sitaramayya faction of theCPI(ML) and some attending the local market, were fired on by police officers at the village ofIndravelli in Andhra Pradesh. The official report claimed that a group of 30 police and five officials opened fire after they were attacked and one of their number speared to death. The number of civilian deaths was cited as 13. Investigations by journalists and local human rights groups place the number of police present in the dozens, and the number of victims between 60 and 250^[5][6]

• 22 May 1987 – TheHashimpura massacre took place during theHindu-Muslim riots inMeerut city inUttar Pradesh state, India, when 19 personnel of theProvincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) allegedly rounded up 42 Muslim youths from the Hashimpuramohalla (locality) of the city, took them in truck to the outskirts, nearMurad Nagar, inGhaziabad district, where they were shot and their bodies weredumped in water canals. A few days later dead bodies were found floating in the canals.

• 30 October 1992 – 2 November 1992 –Ayodhya firing incident took place whenUttar Pradesh police fired live ammunition at civilians who were religious devotees orkar sevaks, assembled near theRam Janmabhoomi site atAyodhya.
• 21 July 1993 - TheKolkata firing took place in the vicinity ofWriters' Building, the state secretariat when police tried to disperse a massive rally of the Youth Congress, organised by the Youth Congress presidentMamata Banerjee. 13 people were shot dead by the police & 200 others (including Banerjee herself) were injured in police lathicharge.
• 1–2 October 1994 – TheRampur Tiraha firing involved police firing on unarmedUttarakhand activists atRampur Tiraha (crossing) inMuzaffarnagar district inUttar Pradesh inIndia on the night of 1–2 October 1994. The activists, part of the agitation for the separate state ofUttarakhand, were going toDelhi to stage a dharna atRaj Ghat onGandhi Jayanti, the following day, when alleged unprovoked police firing in the night of 1 October led to the death of six activists, and some women were allegedly raped and molested in the ensuing melee.
• 25 November 1994 – TheKoothuparamba firing was a police action in the Kannur district of Kerala. The firing happened after the inauguration of the Co-operative Urban Bank's evening branch, when theDYFI protested againstCommunist Marxist Party (CMP) leader and Kerala's Minister,M.V. Raghavan. The police fired at the crowd for both the protection of the Minister and public and private property. FiveDYFI activists were dead and six people were injured.
• 31 August 1995 - The1995 Kodiyankulam violence, where a force of 600 policemen attacked the all-Dalit village of Kodiyankulam in Thoothukudi district, Tamil Nadu.
• 11 July 1997 - The1997 Ramabai killings were a mass killing ofDalit residents of theRamabai Ambedkar Nagar colony inMumbai on 11 July 1997. A team ofState Reserve Police Force members fired upon a crowd protesting the recentdesecration of a statue of Constitution makerB. R. Ambedkar. 10 Dalits were killed and 26 injured in the incident.^[7]
• 1999 – TheManjolai Labourers massacre was brutal police action on a procession taken out in support of agitating tea estate workers, claimed 17 lives in Thirunelveli, Tamil Nadu.^[8][9]

• 2003 – TheMuthanga incident was a brutal police action onAdivasis who had gathered underAdivasi Gothra Mahasabha (AGMS) in protest to theKerala Government's delay in allotting them land, which had been contracted in October 2001. Two fatalities were officially confirmed, however the government later put the death toll at five.^[10][11] More than 15 Adivasis were fatally wounded.^[12]
• 2006 – Police opened fire on people protesting against land acquisition for SEZ ofVideocon at Maan village inPune.^[13]
• 2007 –Nandigram violence – Police opened fire on villagers protesting against land acquisition for building a SEZ with Indonesian real-estate companySalim group atNandigram village inEast Midnapore,West Bengal.^[14][15]
• 2009 – TheBeemapally police shooting saw the police opening fire on the Muslim fishing community atBeemapally inTrivandrum District,Kerala who had gathered to protest the police inaction in controlling goons. The firing killed 6 and injured around 43-52 people—all Muslims.^{[16][17][18][19]}
• 23 July 2009 – atKhwairamband market,Imphal, Manipur police commandos killed an unarmed youth Ch Sanjit Meitei in an alleged encounter and later claiming to seize a pistol on him; in the ensuing encounter a pregnant lady Rabina Devi was also killed, whom the police claimed was shot during the crossfire.^{[citation needed]}

• 2011 – The police opened fire on protesters protesting against the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant and killed one of the protesters.^[20]
• 3 June 2011 – TheForbesganj firing was an act of state brutality in which four villagers were killed nearForbesganj, a town inBihar,India. An inquiry into the incident, conducted by reputed NGOANHAD, suggests a role of politicians from theBharatiya Janata Party in the killings. The residents of the village of Bhajanpur were protesting the grant of land to a factory owned by the son ofBharatiya Janata Party politician Ashok Agarwal.
• 5 June 2011 – The2011 Indian anti-corruption movement.
• 2013 – TheDhule Shootout was an incident in which police opened fire on violent Muslim youths killing 6 and injuring around 20. Police were also involved in burning Muslim houses and destroying their property.^[21]
• 25 August 2015 – ThePatidar community organised an assembly of over 500,000 people at the GMDC Ground inAhmedabad demandingOBC quota. The convenerHardik Patel led others remaining there on hunger strike after the formal rally was over. Police arrested him in the evening, using alathicharge during which journalists were among those injured.^[22]
• 13 October 2015 – Punjab police shot two protestors and injured 50 others at a protest inKotkapura, Punjab, following theGuru Granth Sahib desecration in different parts of Punjab. Police claimed to be acting in self-defence.^[23]
• 2015 – TheAndhra shootout was an incident in the Seshachalam forest inChittoor District,Andhra Pradesh that killed 20 suspected woodcutters.
• 2015 – TheMumbai Police was found to have engaged inmoral policing, after several officers raided hotels and guest houses nearAksa Beach andMadh Island, and detained about 40 couples. Most of them were consenting couples in private rooms, but they were charged under Section 110 (Indecent behaviour in public) of the Bombay Police Act and fined₹1,200 (US$14).^[24] Then CommissionerRakesh Maria order a probe into the raids after criticism.^[25]
• 2018 – TheThoothukudi violence^[26] was an incident inThoothukudi,Tamil Nadu where 13 unarmed protestors were killed and 100+ injured by theTamil Nadu Police.^[27]
• 2019 –The2019 Jamia Milia Islamia attack, during theCitizenship Amendment Act protests, police attacked student protesters as well as non-protesting students at the campus ofJamia Milia Islamia^[28][29][30] On the same day, Police andRapid Action Force injured several students—including some serious injuries—by firing tear-gas shells, rubber bullets, stun grenades and pellets at students of theAligarh Muslim University protesting against the same act. The security forces reportedly hurled communal abuses at the students. The forces fired tear gas shell inside hostel rooms and set ablaze vehicles belonging to students.^[31][32][33]

• 22 June 2020 –Custodial death of father and son,Thoothukudi,Tamil Nadu The duo had been beaten, brutally tortured, and sexually assaulted.^{[34][35][36][37][38][39]}
• 23 September 2021 – InSipajhar, Assam, three people includingMoinul Haque were killed and several others injured by police firing during a protest staged by evicted residents.^[40][41]

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