Taking serious note of a video that has gone viral on the social media, showing police men drinking liquor at their place of work in the police lines, the Dehradun Senior Superintendent of police Nivedita Kukreti suspended one head constable and four constables on Sunday. Apart from this, one policeman was also suspended on the charge of facilitating illegal mining in Vikasnagar police station area.
As per official statement released by the police, a preliminary investigation had been conducted into the clip which went viral on the social media during the past couple of days. As per the video appearing to have been shot from a mobile phone, some policemen were seen sitting around a table consuming liquor in a room at police lines campus while having a conversation.
Based on the report, the SSP suspended five policemen. The suspended policemen are head constable Yogendra Kumar, constables Vivek Kumar, Deepak, Dhamendra Kumar and Nitin Chaudhary. Police sources said that a policeman deputed at police lines is believed to have shot the video and circulated it on social networking site. Senior police officers had also expressed anger over this video and directed district police to conduct an inquiry over this issue.
This incident has exposed the tendency among some members of the police force to themselves be under the influence of liquor during duty hours, opine observers. In another case, one police constable named Ashwani Sharma was also suspended with immediate effect for his alleged involvement in illegal mining activities in the Vikasnagar area.