Phagwara SHO acts against vendor in Bollywood style, faces suspension after video goes viral : The Tribune India
Tribune Information Service
Phagwara, Might 5
As SHO Metropolis Phagwara Navdeep Singh and his group went to Sarai Highway this afternoon to take motion in opposition to vegetable distributors who had saved their carts alongside the street in opposition to police instructions, he selected to behave in a typical Bollywood fashion.
Opening the door of his car, he alights from it and goes straight to a vendor and kicks a basketful of inexperienced chilies that was put up on the market. Scared, all distributors scattered right here and there. The act of the SHO, which was in all probability supposed at terrorising distributors, bought recorded in a 15-second video clip and instantly went viral. Because the viral video reached the senior police officers, the SHO was instantly positioned below suspension for his ‘fallacious behaviour’.
As a member of a disciplined pressure, such behaviour is in opposition to service guidelines and unwarranted. Taking strict motion in opposition to the officer, he has been instantly positioned below suspension. A departmental inquiry has been initiated in opposition to him. The officers of Kapurthala police have contributed from their salaries for offering compensation to the vegetable vendor. We’re dedicated to serving the folks of Kapurthala with sincerity and honesty and any such act by any officer shall be strictly handled.
DGP Punjab Dinkar Gupta additionally needed to take to Twitter to make clear the stand as he wrote: “Completely shameful and unacceptable. I’ve suspended SHO Phagwara. Such misbehaviour is not going to be tolerated at any price and people who take pleasure in it should face critical penalties.” Even SSP Kapurthala Kanwardeep Kaur was made to hurry to Phagwara and take motion in opposition to the SHO.
He was instantly changed by Inspector Balwinder Pal Singh.
The SSP additionally issued a launch to the media, wherein she wrote: “Immediately, a video that was in circulation on numerous social media platforms got here to my discover. On this video, SHO Metropolis Phagwara Navdeep Singh was seen damaging the property of a avenue facet vegetable vendor. As a member of a disciplined pressure, such behaviour is in opposition to service guidelines and unwarranted. Below the supervision of DGP Punjab, the Punjab Police have been working on the forefront of the warfare in opposition to Covid-19 for over a yr now and has served the folks of Punjab with dedication. Throughout this, now we have additionally misplaced many officers to Covid-19. However this sort of a behaviour brings a foul title to your entire pressure. Taking strict motion in opposition to the officer, he has been instantly positioned below suspension. A departmental inquiry has been initiated in opposition to him. The officers of Kapurthala police have contributed from their salaries for offering compensation to the vegetable vendor. We’re dedicated to serving the folks of Kapurthala with sincerity and honesty and any such act by any officer shall be strictly handled.”
It’s learnt that for the previous many days, the cops had been asking distributors who used to park their carts at Sarai Highway right here for retail sale, to not depart it at a selected place and as an alternative transfer about in colonies for door-to-door provide. The practically 100 stranded distributors within the space had been leading to crowding, which the administration couldn’t enable within the prevailing circumstances. The SHO, as an alternative of getting challans issued or taking some motion, kicked the produce of a vendor, which bought recorded. He therefore invited motion in opposition to himself.
