DYFI to move Supreme Court over alleged illegal detention, torture of activists

The Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), a youth wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), plans to take their case to the Supreme Court over alleged illegal detention and torture of its activists, according to A.A. Rahim, the Rajya Sabha member and national president of the organisation. On October 11, 2026, Rahim claimed that DYFI members were engaged in a peaceful protest when police officers forcibly removed them from the road and placed them into a bus.

Rahim alleged that instead of a police station, the detainees were taken to a location without CCTV surveillance. The activists were then separated by gender and subjected to brutal assaults inside the buses, Rahim stated, adding that the vehicles were described as "nothing short of Guantanamo Bay on wheels." Rahim further alleged that the police did not adhere to proper legal procedures, such as preparing arrest memos, informing family members, conducting medical examinations on detainees, and presenting them before a magistrate.

He emphasized that these violations occurred on the same day that the Supreme Court had ordered peaceful assemblies should not be illegally detained. The petition, according to Rahim, will expose these alleged abuses, request an independent inquiry into the police actions, and request the apex court to establish binding guidelines for detentions during protests.

Senior advocate Arundhati Katju will represent the case, while advocate-on-record Subhash Chandran K.R. will file it, Rahim said.