TMC's Saket Gokhale files complaint against Delhi cop for 'assaulting' woman protester on July 20
Trinamool Congress former Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale on Thursday (July 23, 2026) said he has filed a police complaint against Additional DCP Sandeep Lamba over the alleged assault of a woman protester during police action near Jantar Mantar on July 20.Follow Jantar Mantar protest LIVE updatesIn a post on X, Mr. Gokhale said he has submitted the complaint to the SHO of Parliament Street police station, seeking an FIR against Mr. Gokhale said the complaint was filed a day after the Delhi High Court was informed by the government, during the hearing of petitions alleging police brutality, that no one had approached the police seeking registration of an FIR.
- ▪Trinamool Congress former Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale on Thursday (July 23, 2026) said he has filed a police complaint against Additional DCP Sandeep Lamba over the alleged assault of a woman protester during police action near Jantar Mant
- ▪Gokhale said he has submitted the complaint to the SHO of Parliament Street police station, seeking an FIR against Mr.
- ▪Gokhale said the complaint was filed a day after the Delhi High Court was informed by the government, during the hearing of petitions alleging police brutality, that no one had approached the police seeking registration of an FIR.
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Trinamool Congress former Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale on Thursday (July 23, 2026) said he has filed a police complaint against Additional DCP Sandeep Lamba over the alleged assault of a woman protester during police action near Jantar Mantar on July 20.Follow Jantar Mantar protest LIVE updatesIn a post on X, Mr. Gokhale said he has submitted the complaint to the SHO of Parliament Street police station, seeking an FIR against Mr. Lamba and alleging that the officer assaulted a woman protester during the police crackdown at the students' march towards Parliament.He said the complaint invokes provisions of the BNS, including Section 74 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), Section 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), Section 131 (assault or criminal force…
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