Uttar Pradesh: In a shocking incident, two on-duty police cops can be seen assaulting a specially-abled man in the Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh. As soon as the incident went viral on social media, Deoria police immediately suspended them from duty and filed a case against them at Rudrapur police station.
In a 2-minute 20-second viral video it can be seen that two jawans allegedly from Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) are captured on CCTV assaulting and verbally abusing a specially-abled man on a tricycle in Deoria.
प्रदेश में पुलिस का इक़बाल खत्म हो चुका है !
क्या इन्हें बर्खास्त किया जाएगा?यही तानशाही है जिसमें पुलिस वाले बेगुनाह जनता पर कहर बरपा रहे हैं।
देवरिया में एक विकलांग व्यक्ति को पानी मांगने पर @Uppolice ने जमकर पीटा। pic.twitter.com/oTAUq1dgJY---Advertisement---— Prashant Kumar Yadav (@PrshantySP) July 30, 2023
The video has been tweeted by Samaj Wadi party member, Prasant Kumar Yadav. “The Iqbal of the police has ended in the state!
Will they be fired? This is a dictatorship in which policemen are wreaking havoc on innocent people. @Uppolice thrashed a disabled person in Deoria for asking for water.” he tweeted.
उक्त दोनों पीआरडी के कर्मी हैं, जिन्हे ड्यूटी से हटाते हुए इनके विरुद्ध प्राप्त प्रार्थना पत्र के आधार पर थाना रुद्रपुर में अभियोग पंजीकृत किया जा रहा है।
— DEORIA POLICE (@DeoriaPolice) July 30, 2023
While replying to the tweet, Deoria police writes, “The above two are PRD personnel, who were removed from duty and on the basis of the application received against them, charges are being registered in Rudrapur police station.”
Netizens Reactions
A user wrote, “Kya jawan hai waah, ek apang k sath, aisa vhaywhar, duniya kamjor pe julm uthati hi hai.” Another user wrote, “Police behaving like this really not good…All over India…. kutta Raaz.” A third user says, “What happened on the ground we can’t speculate from here. No audio is there in the video. So yeah can’t say anything.”