Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan here on Thursday ordered the suspension of GRP SHO Arvind Gangrade in connection with the manhandling and beating of some media persons by GRP jawans at Indore railway station a few days back. Chouhan issued the order after seeing a video footage shown to him by a delegation of Indore Press Club at Hotel Fortune landmark.
leading the delegation, Indore Press Club president Pravin Khariwal informed the CM that media persons were unnecessarily roughed up and manhandled by GRP jawans. They did not spare those media persons who had arrived there in support of the victims and were also beaten up.
Khariwal informed Chouhan that in seven hours of the incident railway SP directed to lodge FIR against the guilty police jawans but at the same time no efforts were made to book GRP TI notwithstanding the fact the incident took place at his behest. The delegates also urged the CM to book the guilty police jawans under stricter sections and asked him to make an amendment in the law so that persons guilty of beating up media persons are denied bail.
Taking due cognisance of their demands, Chouhan directed AIG Imrin Shah who is probing into the matter to take suitable action by acting on other points of the reports and also asked the authority concerned to ensure proper medical treatment to those scribes who sustained serious injuries in the incident and are presently undergoing treatment at the hospital.
As many as five media persons sustained injuries, three of them seriously after they were manhandled and beaten up by GRP jawans at Indore railway station a few days back following a row with the parking contractor. later, railway SP following pressure of the higher-ups lodged FIR against the guilty and suspended three GRP jawans for attacking media persons. However, no efforts were made to book GRP TI at whose behest the whole incident took place. Home Minister Babulal Gaud, sent an AIG rank officer Imrin Shah to probe the matter and submit the report for suitable actions.