The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has ordered an enquiry into eunuchs dancing on salacious Bollywood numbers on stage at the paramilitary’s Kathgodam Group Centre in Uttarakhand at a function to mark the force’s Raising Day ceremony in October last year.

It was passed off as a cultural event, but several videos of the dance sequences got circulated on WhatsApp. The CRPF brass has also asked its Kathgodam unit how the security of the Group Centre was secured by calling civilians to the event.

The Raising Day ceremony was held on October 13-14 last year at the CRPF facility but “neither any officer nor any jawan complained against the misdemeanour” on the CRPF campus. Since both the officers and men were complicit in the affair, they remained silent for three months, sources said.

However, through a communication issued on January 11, the Inspector General (IG) of the Dehradun Sector of the CRPF has specifically asked the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of the Kathgodam Group Centre, Satish Kumar Linda, to submit a detailed report on the conduct of the Raising Day, including cultural programme held on October 14, 2022, showing sequence of events planned on the occasion.

Linda is also facing a separate enquiry for misconduct, officials said.

Apart from other details, the IG has also directed his Deputy to include in the report the details of the officers present during the “cultural programme”.

The report must include reasons which prompted the DIG, Group Centre of CRPF at Kathgodam, to permit members of the Binny Dance Academy to perform during a ceremonial function of the Force, the IG stated. The report will also enumerate what role the eunuchs are playing in running the dance academy.

The DIG has been further asked to clarify whether the Binny Dance Academy is a private institution or affiliated to the Uttarakhand Government.

At least four videos in possession of The Pioneer suggest several officers were present in the hall when the eunuchs were performing and a few of them even gyrated with the dancers.

The dancers even posed suggestively on the stage as well as the first row of the sofas in the auditorium of the Group Centre where officials were seated during the programme.

Insiders in the CRPF said indiscipline has no place in a uniformed force, like CRPF, and such breaches also pose security threat to the paramilitary’s facilities besides diluting the ethos of the institution held in high esteem by the entire nation. 

They said accountability must be fixed at the earliest and the irresponsible officials and jawans must be punished quickly to check repeat of such instances in future.

Forces should not ignore such serious indiscipline in the name of taking populist measures to appease their men, they maintained.