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NHRC Receives Complaint On Manhandling Congress Women Workers During Protest Over Rahul-ED Row

According to the details available on NHRC's website, the complaint has been 🎶filed by advocate Amrish Ranjan Pandey, a Congress worker and advocate Ambuj Dixit, nati🍷onal co-coordinator, legal cell, Indian Youth Congress.

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A complaint has beenඣ lodged with the National Human Rights Commission, alleging "manhandling" of a few Congress women workers by some security personnel during a protest held on Jun 15 against the questioning of party leader Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate.

According to the details available on NHRC's website, the complaint has been filed by advocate Amrish Ranjan Pandey, a Congress worker and advocate Ambuj Dixit, natio♛nal co-coordinator, legal cell, Indian Youth Congress.

The two party workers have alleged that♏ male security personnel deplꩵoyed by Delhi Police on Wednesday had forcibly entered the Congress headquarters here and beat up party workers and leaders. 

A few male personnel of the Rapid Action Force ꧙unit, which was also deployed, had "manhandled a few female Congress workers", Pandey alleged, and said, "our complaint has been registered by the NHRC today."

Mahila Congress workers were "unlawfully and witho✱ut any authority" ꦿprevented from exercising their right to protest, the complaints wrote to the rights panel.

RAF comes under the Central Reserved Police Force (CRPF) and deployed by authoritie🍬s as a situation warrants to control the law and order situation.

The Congress had on Wednesday alleged thไat Delhi Police personnel forcibly entered its headquarters and beat-up party workers and leaders on a day the party staged vociferous protests against Gandhi's questioning by the ED in a money laundering case.