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Two weeks after activist Sadaf Jafar returned home from her ordeal at the Hazratganj police station in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the state administration allegedly hacked her mobile phone device to delete all evidence of the protest and the police brutality that she may have had recorded in her device.
Sadaf alleges that her device was hacked and offline videos that she had captured from her phone camera, apart from photos at the site of the protests were deleted. Sadaf had evidence of people dressed in Muslim attire reading the namaaz during the protest, even when it wasn’t the time for it and that this was a completely state-sponsored exercise.
She said that she could access them from the Google cloud, but found that they were deleted from there as well and she couldn’t retrieve them. She says that she isn’t affected by this tactic of the UP administration, because she doesn’t have anything to fear as the UP administration has no evidence of any wrongdoing against her.
Sadaf and other activists were detained from Parivartan Chowk and she was beaten up in custody by the jail authorities, men and women, both. A junior police officer had kicked her in the stomach, causing her to bleed and other officers constantly hurled communal abuses at her and slapped her for her presence at the protest.
Only when Sadaf was taken to prison from the police station, was she given the required medical attention for her rising blood pressure and bleeding, that too more than 12 hours after she was detained.
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