BEHAVIOUR OF THE INDIAN POLICE

Early day motion 1383, tabled 16 January 2006 by John McDonnell (Labour). Signed by 27 members.

That this House expresses its deep concern at the recent examples of brutal behaviour of the Indian Police in the eviction of Punjabi farmers from their farms in Kashipur in the State of Uttaranchal, in their violent attack on the protesting vegetable merchants in the old fruit market in Amritsar, and the beating to near death of Sukhvinder Singh Sukha at Phagawara; and calls upon the Government to express formally its condemnation to the Indian High Commission.

Signatures by party: Labour 19, Conservative 2, DUP 2, Liberal Democrat 2, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.