Bollywood actress, Ayesha Khan, arrested from Mumbai protest; detained for hours Ayesha Khan, famous for featuring in the song from the movie Dhurandhar, has been arrested by the Mumbai Police for gathering with students at a protest connected with the ongoing NEET examination paper leak demonstrations. As police moved into the crowd assembled near Dadar and dispersed the groups supporting the protest, launched by the Cockroach Janata Party, to support the student-demonstrations, the actress was detained and let off about 3 hours later, late at night. Her brother and friends have also been taken to separate police station locations including Rafi Ahmed Kidwai police station with transport to various city locations.
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Video from inside Police Car Shows Incident A few minute-long clips uploaded to Instagram from inside the Police van clearly show the moments when Khan was apprehended.
Her video clips reveal her shivering in the vehicle and sharing with fans and followers how she was ‘surrounded by cops without reasons’. She also repeatedly asks women police officers: “We haven’t chanted any slogans. We haven’t held any banners and we haven’t begun any demonstrations but why have you dragged me from here?
Where are we taking you?”
It shows multiple cops force her into the van and Refused to mention the route where she was being taken and with whom .
Claims to have been taken without being Part of Protest: Statement According to Ayesha Khan’s statement recorded at Worli Police station, on Monday evening she had reached the Dadar protest area only at around 4 p.m. To extend solidarity with students protesting for a probe against examination board officials. Before she reached the protest site and got into any gathering to lend support to students, however, her family members including brother and three of his friends who came with her were forcibly taken away by police teams separately.
She continued to stand on the roadside near the protest site along with her two female friends, wondering about where her relatives were being taken. A few minutes later, approximately 15 members of the police team surrounded them three and force us inside a police van for about three hours without assigning any reason of the arrests, or clarifying as to who ordered for the arrested, she stated from Worli Police Station. They questioned her: “With only 3 people standing together we also wanted know why do you arrests when we haven’t done anything such even there are a lot of us, we also wanted to ask this you, when there aren’t prohibitory orders on you” At the Worli Police station they respectfully treated the whole group, she said after her release adding that she also inquired from local cops who ordered for such an apprehension made.
Later went to get her brother: ‘They all are at this police station now’.
Bollywood members join protests After her arrest the 27 year old eventually made her way to be with family and went for brother and his friends who were also arrested to get him out of Police lock up, as many in the Bollywood fraternity including, National Award Winner,Ratna Pathak Shah and actor, Prakash Raj, have publicly extended their support to the agitating students.
