Infamous for human rights abuse, a police inspector was seen thrashing a Class IV employee with a stick even as his minor daughter wailed in trauma and shock during an agitation outside the district hospital at Akbarpur in Kanpur Dehat on Thursday. As the police tried to detain the man, another officer was seen pulling the child away as the father clung to her.
Ironically, the local officers initially tried to hush up the abuse claiming that the action was “necessary” but later as a video of the police brutality went viral on social media, the accused cop was suspended and a probe was ordered against him.
The police action came after some agitating staff of the district hospital staged a dharna and put locks on the OPD on Thursday morning. As the cops led by Inspector Vinod Kumar Mishra tried to reason, the situation deteriorated after which a staff allegedly locked up the cops in a room. Later the cops zeroed in on one of the staff and beat him up.The local police officials initially came out in support of their junior colleagues.