Probe finds 2 constables at fault for ‘raising hands on couple’

The incident had come as a jolt to the city police, who were already under fire after three women constables allegedly assaulted a devotee outside a Ganpati pandal in Lalbaug in September.

2 min readMumbaiDec 8, 2015 01:22 AM IST

An inquiry has found at least two constables at fault for “beating up” a couple inside the Andheri police station last month. The policemen are likely to be transferred.

A video of the incident, filmed by activist Gulam Shaikh inside the police station on November 4, had gone viral. In the video, a group of policemen is seen “separating the couple”. By the end of the 1-minute, 53-second video, some policemen are seen raising their hands on the 24-year-old woman.
Immediately after the incident, police had justified their behaviour, saying the couple was drunk and misbehaving.

A senior police officer said they had received the inquiry report from Zonal Deputy Commissioner Vinayak Deshmukh, who probed the incident. The city police chief and other senior officers were studying the report and a decision would be taken later this week, sources said. A senior police officer told The Indian Express, “Two policemen involved in the fracas are seen raising their hands on the woman, which cannot be justified even if they were trying to separate them.”
The two policemen are likely to be transferred. When contacted, Deshmukh said he would not like to comment as he had submitted the report to the commissioner’s office.

The video purportedly shows nearly eight officers, a few of them women, surrounding and beating the couple inside the police station. The woman is heard apologising and requesting the officers to allow her go home.

The incident had come as a jolt to the city police, who were already under fire after three women constables allegedly assaulted a devotee outside a Ganpati pandal in Lalbaug in September. These incidents had prompted the city police chief to issue a circular, asking his personnel to not behave in an aggressive manner.

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