Chandigarh: A Station House Officer in Punjab was on Wednesday suspended after a video exhibiting him kicking a vegetable basket of a road vendor went viral on social media.
Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta initiated the motion SHO (City) Phagwara, Navdeep Singh, as he was seen within the video kicking the basket of a vegetable vendor.
Informing about his determination to droop the SHO, the DGP later in a tweet mentioned “such misbehaviour will not be tolerated at any cost and those who indulge in it will have to face serious consequences”.
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“Absolutely shameful and unacceptable. I have suspended SHO Phagwara. Such misbehaviour will not be tolerated at any cost and those who indulge in it will have to face serious consequences,” he wrote.
Kapurthala Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kanwardeep Kaur mentioned the SHO (City) Phagwara has been suspended with rapid impact after a video got here to the fore during which he was seen damaging the property of a road facet vegetable vendor. The cop was closely criticised on Twitter for his inhuman behaviour in opposition to poor road distributors who’re in a pitiable form financially on account of Covid restrictions and lockdown.
“We did the verification (of the video) and found out during the preliminary inquiry that the incident is of Phagwara. Looking into the seriousness of the matter, the SHO (City) Phagwara has been suspended immediately. Further investigation will be carried out against him,” she added.
