At least two migrant labourers from West Bengal and Delhi, who work as waste collectors, on Monday approached the Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (KSHRC) and filed a petition seeking protection from police brutality. They alleged that the police were threatening to demolish their huts and torture them to evict them.
Rabbani Sardar, 52, from West Bengal and Anees Bundu, 38, from Delhi, who are among the hundred-odd labourers staying in a colony on Saibaba Road, Anekal, alleged that the brutality started on June 17, when a group of five to six policemen, attached to the Hebbagodi station, barged into their work site and started abusing and caning them.
They also alleged that the police kicked them and told them to vacate within 24 hours, terming them illegal Bangladeshi migrants.
