Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday staged a dramatic six-hour dharna at the Parliament Street police station here demanding an FIR over pellet injuries to a youth during the July 20 protest and ended it only after police registered the complaint.
Gandhi raised the pitch on the issue after 19-year-old Sahil Lochab claimed that the police was refusing to register an FIR on his complaint despite him suffering pellet wounds including damage to his eye.
Soon after the police registered the FIR late in the evening, Gandhi said this is the first step towards justice and ended his dharna.
The BJP hit back at Gandhi and accused him of playing “politics of anarchy” only to remain relevant in the media and termed this as Congress’ attempt to divert attention from the “wrong stand” taken on Vande Mataram.
Gandhi accompanied Lochab and his mother to the Mandir Marg police station in the morning, which refused to register the FIR. He then took them to Deputy Commissioner of Police (New Delhi
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