APunjab Police officer in Amritsar allegedly slapped a man for violating curfewnorms, the cctv footage of which has gone viral on the social media.
Withthis another video followed, showing the man who was slapped, Raghav, narratinghis story. Raghav, a local businessman from Pratap Bazaar near Guru Bazaar, hassaid that the incident took place today while he was working in his shop duringthe restricted hours.
Hesaid that he was working on GST returns as the next day is deadline withoutpenalty for the returns filing, therefore, he was forced to work during thecurfew hours. “The unruly behavior of the Punjab Police is really notacceptable as they need to understand the problems of the small businessmen”,he said adding that he has been promised of swift and just action and thus heis not pressing any charges.
Meanwhilethis is not the first time such incident has taken place. Earlier, there havebeen reports of similar incidents from Phagwara and Batala. On May 5, athree-star officer of the Punjab Police kicked a vegetable basket of a roadsideshop.
Similarly,on May 6, we have an Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) who is swearing at commonpeople and is claimed to be drunk on duty.
Takingstrict action on the above mentioned incidents, the Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta has earlier claimed that such behaviour is unacceptable and has suspended the copsconcerned.