Archive · 12 Oct 2026
John Brittas Alleges Police Assault, Writes to President and CJI
CPI(M) MP John Brittas says police officers hurt him and left him by the roadside.
He wrote to the President and the Chief Justice of India about what he says happened.
Brittas said he had trouble breathing afterward.
He says a senior police officer saw the situation and told the officers to let him go because he was a member of Parliament.
Brittas says the officers put him in an auto-rickshaw but did not go with him.
These are Brittas’s claims as reported in the article.
CPI(M) MP John Brittas wrote to the President and the Chief Justice of India about his treatment by police.
Brittas said he was brutally attacked and left on the roadside after being detained on a bus.
He said he was struggling to breathe following the incident.
According to Brittas, a deputy commissioner of police saw what happened and told officers to release him because he was an MP.
Brittas alleged that officers put him in an auto but refused to accompany him.
- Who
- CPI(M) MP John Brittas and police officers, according to Brittas’s account.
- What
- Brittas wrote to the President and the Chief Justice of India alleging that police attacked him, left him roadside, and refused to accompany him after putting him in an auto.
- Where
- The account says Brittas was pushed out of a police bus and left roadside; it does not identify a location.
- Why
- Brittas said a deputy commissioner of police instructed officers to release him because he was an MP.
Brittas’s account
Police response
Alleged assault and roadside abandonment
Brittas’s account
Brittas alleged that police brutally attacked him and left him roadside.
Police response
The article provides no police response or alternative account.
Release and subsequent assistance
Brittas’s account
Brittas said officers put him in an auto but would not accompany him.
Police response
The article does not include a police explanation of what happened.
- Person making the allegations
- John Brittas, a CPI(M) MP
- Recipients of the letter
- The President and the Chief Justice of India
- Reported condition
- Brittas said he was struggling to breathe after the ordeal.
- Account of release
- Brittas said a deputy commissioner of police told the officers to release him because he was an MP.
- Transportation after release
- Brittas said police put him in an auto but refused to accompany him.