Ranchi, Aug. 16 -- Jharkhand student leader Devendra Nath Mahto on Sunday alleged severe police high-handedness and manhandling during Independence Day celebrations.

Mahto, who has been at the forefront of state youth agitation demanding employment reforms and recruitment transparency, stated that security forces prevented him from participating in peaceful patriotic observances, including a planned Tricolour March (Tiranga Yatra).

According to Mahto, police personnel forcibly stopped him while attempting to leave Ranchi's Sadar Hospital to participate in a Tiranga Yatra organised by student protesters on the occasion of India's 80th Independence Day.

In a post on X, Mahto alleged that despite being under treatment at the hospital, he ...