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Here's how Punjab cops can pay for a cup of tea
WSN Network

Gurdaspur: In an extremely disturbing report that can jolt even the hardened cynic, the media in Punjab has brougth out how police brutality has become a routine affair in the state. Calling it “unprecedented”, The Tribune newspaper reported how a few policemen tied a Dalit tea vendor to a tree for hours together in the local police post, all because the victim refused to supply them tea free of cost.

Though the policemen, including munshi Yashpal Singh and Head Constable Amanual Masih, have been placed under suspension and sent to the Police Lines by the district police authorities, no case against them was registered despite the fact that victim Ramesh Kumar was “illegally confined and tortured” in the police post without any fault.

Ramesh, while narrating his tale of woes before mediapersons, said that the policemen forcibly took him to the police post. He was handcuffed and tied to a tree. His fault was that he had refused to supply tea free of cost to the policemen from his kiosk located near it. He added that he was maltreated, abused and threatened by the policemen that he would be implicated in a false criminal case as he had refused to supply them tea free of cost.

It was an area resident who took up the matter with an SP rank officer that brought relief to the dalit man. (Adapted largely from a report cited in the story - Ed.).

17 June  2009
 

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