An 80-year-old woman has alleged that she had been beaten up by the Madhya Pradesh police last week, who had come to her house chasing protesters from a farmers' rally in at Phanda kalan village near Sehore on Friday. Her husband Shivcharan Mewada, who is nearly 100 years old, was beaten up too and her son and four grandsons have been illegally arrested, she said. When she went to meet the Chief Minister - who is on a "peace fast" at 40 km away in Bhopal's Gandhi Maidan - she was not allowed to see him by officials.
The previous day, police had opened fire to control the crowds at a rally in Mandsaur, where the farmers were demanding a better price for their crops and waiver of loans. Six farmers had died in the firing. The state government initially claimed it was not the police who opened fire and admitted it only much later -- triggering more protests across the state, some of which had taken place in Sehore.
"I told them that I cannot move from my cot. I have had a rod inserted in my leg and I have been sitting here for the last one-and-a-half years. Still, they beat me up," she said.
The couple has now gone on a fast, demanding that the Chief Minister come and meet her. "I will not eat till the Chief Minister comes and meets me," Mrs Mewade said. She said she had gone to meet the Chief Minister to ask for help, hearing his appeal to farmers to come and air their grievances. But the officials did not allow her to meet him.
The state's Principal secretary SK Mishra has said he would look into the matter.
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