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Examples of lathi
lathi
Then he hit me twice with the lathi, threatened to arrest me and grabbed my notebook, which I managed to wrench back.
From the latimes.com
Party workers were lathi charged while protesting.
From the en.wikipedia.org
While leading a procession against the Simon Commission, he was fatally injured in the lathi charge by the British police.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They were lathi charged and teargas was used.
From the en.wikipedia.org
One of the supporters sprang to his leader's protection, covered him and took all the lathi blows on himself.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The solution cannot be wielding a lathi or a sword.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Assistant sub-inspector Tukaram Omble, who was armed only with a lathi, was killed when the police charged the car.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The police, who had waded into the queues with lathi sticks the previous day, were largely absent and the scenes much more good-natured.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Chidambaram was criticized widely for ordering a police lathi charge at midnight on non-violent protesters at the Ramlila Maidan, Delhi.
From the en.wikipedia.org
From one side, a policeman began hitting my legs with his heavy wooden lathi stick and on the other, a Hindu holy man hit me with a metal rod.
From the lightbox.time.com
That could however have been contained and there was no need for the water cannon and lathi-charging that engulfed the crowd around me and many others further away.
From the independent.co.uk
As the procession wended its way through the roads of the state capital, the police made a lathi charge and, it is said, the Sarvodaya leader was the target.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He said he was unable to take responsibility for a lathi charge and possible deaths in a venue full of children and old people, and forbade the link to take place on his property.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Club consisting of a heavy stick (often bamboo) bound with iron; used by police in India
- Rice
- The lathi or quarterstaff is a wooden stick as tall as the warrior and made of oak.
- Bludgeon, heavy police baton
- Stick, used by the police
- [staff, stick, club].
- "Staff." An Indian fighting art centered around a cane or bamboo staff about five feet in length.
