In yet another incident of police highhandedness, an inebriated policeman allegedly threw hot tea on a woman tea vendor at Damanjodi of Koraput district on Wednesday.According to reports, Sarathi Hota, posted as the Havildar at Damanjodi police station, went to a tea stall in the morning. As the tea seller delayed in serving tea to Hota, he poured hot tea on the old woman following which she sustained serious burn injuries.
Source said that the accused police was drunk when he visited the tea stall. “When the policeman asked for tea, I was serving two to three customers., angry over it the cop poured hot tea on my back,” said the victim. Later, the old woman was undergoing treatment at a hospital in Damanjodi.
Meanwhile, a video of the incident has went viral on social as Havilar’s seniors are trying to hush up the matter.