Telangana State Police Department has launched an enquiry into the video of some constables and home guards working as orderlies at the residence of an IPS officer in Ranga Reddy district, adjoining Hyderabad.
Even as a team headed by Hyderabad range DIG Akun Sabharwal took up the probe on the orders of the acting DGP Anjani Kumar, the IPS officer concerned, Ranga Reddy district Superintendent of Police Naveen Kumar, put a constable Mahesh of Bantwaram police station under suspension for uploading the video on social media.
While the constables and the home guards, who are seen washing utensils and working in the kitchen of the SP, alleged that they were forced to work as orderlies, the SP has made a counter allegation that it was all a conspiracy against him.
Naveen Kumar said that he was being targeted as he had launched a drive against corruption in the department and made a list of the constables indulging in collection of mamool.
He said that it was genuine video shot by the constables and home guards at his residence on June 28. The SP had also ordered the special branch probe into the episode and has also questioned the five cops who figure in the video and the photos.
Meanwhile, the State Home Guards Association has alleged that the incident shows that the IPS officers had least regard for the home guard and the constables.
The association president and the ruling TRS party MlA V Srinivas Goud said that the constables and the home guards who were recruited in the police department after striving hard and proving their skills were forced to work as orderlies instead of helping in law enforcements.
“The IPS officers who were supported to be protectors of law have turned law breakers by continuing a system abolished by the Government”, he said.
A few years ago a senior IPS officer AK Kumodi had launched a drive to clean up the system and put an end to the misuse of the home guards and constables as domestic helps and it had faced strong resistance from the powerful lobby.