It seems that the policemen posted at the police station at the lower rank who directly deals with the common man are not paying any attention to the instruction of chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to remain alert on duty.
All this was revealed live when the SP Indore East Ashutosh Bagri visited 12 police stations at break of dawn around 5 o’clock on Wednesday. The police stations were open and the policemen were sleeping keeping their rifle and weapons aside carelessly.
In Azad nagar police station the guard Jitendra Rawat was sleeping in the cabin of T I Indresh Tripathi and kept his rifle abandoned also the head constable Krishan Kumar was absent from his chair and was sleeping in the nearby room. SP immediately suspended both the police man.
SP Ashutosh Bagri also checked the lock up room and malkhanas. The head constable and the guard of the police station Kotwali was found sleeping. One ASI of the MG road police station was found sleeping. In Pardeshipura and Vijay nagar police station S P found few people who were found sitting in the police station for no reason. When the S P asked the head constable the reason for the arrest of these people the constable did not reply. S P Ashutosh Bagri issued show cause notice to the T I Ashok Patidar of the Pardeshipura and T I Tahzeeb Kazi of the Vijayanagar police station.