Video shows Trinamool MP pushing, assaulting constable at Assam airport

Policewoman injured as Trinamool Congress leaders protest their detention at Silchar.

india Updated: Aug 02, 2018 21:58 IST

Constable Rubi Rani Das was among the police who detained Trinamool Congress leaders.(ANI photo)

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was accused of assaulting and injuring a police constable after a party delegation was prevented from leaving Assam’s Silchar airport on Thursday.

A video tweeted by news agency ANI showed Moitra pushing Constable Rubi Rani Das and shouting as the policewoman pleads with her with folded hands. A photo showed Das bandaged later.

#WATCH: TMC’s Mahua Moitra seen assaulting lady constable who tried to restrain Mahua Moitra after TMC leaders were stopped at Silchar Airport. Constable received injuries. #NRCAssam pic.twitter.com/FJjNQ77ngO
— ANI (@ANI) August 2, 2018

A eight-member team of Trinamool legislators and parliamentarians landed at the airport at around 2 pm to protest to review the National Register of Citizens (NRC) draft, but was detained because Cachar district, of which Silchar is part of, is under heavy security and has banned protests.

Trinamool Congress leaders protested their detention, calling it “super emergency”.

First Published: Aug 02, 2018 21:58 IST