In a shocking incident, a Telangana policeman kicked the grieving
father of a 16-year-old college student who died under suspicious
circumstances.
The video of the policeman repeatedly kicking the man went viral on
the social media, prompting the officials to announce action against
him.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at Patancheru in Sanga Reddy district near Hyderabad.
According to police, Sandhya Rani, student of Intermediate First Year
(11th standard), was found dead under suspicious circumstances at a
private college in Velimala village on Tuesday,
Police registered a case of criminal negligence against the college
management on the complaint of her father and the body was kept at
mortuary room in government hospital, Patancheru for autopsy.
The relatives of the deceased tried to take the body to college where
she had committed suicide. They wanted to stage a protest and demand
justice to the family.
Chandana Deepti, in-charge superintendent of police, Sangareddy
district, said the relatives and other students attacked the mortuary
room and brought out the body from the hospital premises.
The police chased away the protestors and managed to take possession
of the coffin. As they were carrying back the coffin to the hospital,
the girl's father tried to block their path wanting to know how his
daughter died.
The man threw himself to the ground and clung to the coffin. One of
the police constables, identified as Sridhar, kicked the man repeatedly.
"The entire police department regrets the insensitive beahviour of
the said police constable officer and he has been attached to AR (Armed
Reserve) head quarter Sangareddy immediately and a disciplinary action
will be initiated against him after a detailed enquiry of the incident,"
the police official said.
As the video triggered public outrage over social media, cabinet
minister K. T. Rama Rao tweeted that he has asked Home Minister Mehmood
Ali and Director General of Police Mahender Reddy to look into the
insensitive handling by the policemen. "Showing empathy in times of
grief such as this is the basic courtesy that is expected of Govt
officials," said Rama Rao.
"It is an unfortunate incident. The concerned police officer has been
withdrawn from duties and attached to Hqrs. SP Sangareddy has been
directed to take appropriate measures to prevent recurrence of such
incidents," tweeted the DGP.
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