2 constables sent to district lines for beating woman
Two Delhi police constables were sent to the district lines after a video of them thrashing a woman with a lathi surfaced online, the police said on Tuesday. Constables Sanjeev and Jaichand were posted at the Shastri Park police station in Northeast district, it said.
A cop is sent to district line as an punishment, whenever there is an inquiry against them till the pendency of the enquiry, so he or she don’t interfere with the investigation.
The incident, which took place at around 9.00 pm on Monday, was captured on camera and showed a woman, identified as Munni Devi, being beaten up by the policemen while her daughter Soni tried to shield her.
According to the police, the constables were patrolling the area when they received information about some people raising unauthorised shanties on government land near Bihari building in Northeast Delhi.
Upon reaching the spot, the policemen asked the group to stop the “illegal activity” but Devi, along with others, began abusing the constables, the police said.
DCP (Northeast) Ved Prakash Surya said that despite being asked to stop the activity, the group carried on and when the police personnel made a physical intervention, constable Sanjeev, who is the beat officer of the area, was attacked.
He was physically assaulted and his uniform was torn by the crowd, forcing him to call for back up, the deputy commissioner of police said.
In the incident, Devi and her daughter along with constable Sanjeev sustained injuries.
According to the deputy commissioner of police, both the constables have been sent to police lines and an inquiry into the matter has been initiated.