Two policemen, including a sub-inspector, were shunted out after they allegedly assaulted a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader inside a police station in Mau.
The action was taken after local ruling party leaders staged a demonstration demanding stern action against those involved in the brutal attack on the party leaders.
Reports said that Saurabh Gupta, a leading gold trader of Mau and senior leader of the BJP, was picked up by the cops of Madhuban police station earlier this week. According to the divisional vice-president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the BJP, Gupta had some dispute with the cops over some issue after which he was taken to the police station.
The BJYM leader claimed that later, in the presence of the station house officer of Madhuban police station, a police sub-inspector along with a constable brutally assaulted Gupta with shoe and belts. The BJYM leader claimed that the cops kept assaulting Gupta for more than 90 minutes after detaining him at the police station and threatened him with dire consequences saying that they knew how to deal with the BJP leaders.
Interestingly, another party leader, Pintu Pandey, was also assaulted by the cops when he went to help Gupta.
BJP district president Praveen Gupta said that a demand had been made from the administration to immediately suspend the policemen involved in this incident and conduct a high-level inquiry. The party also staged a demonstration and met senior officers with their demand on Thursday after which senior officials ordered a probe into the incident.
Additional Superintendent of Police Tribhuvan Nath Tripathi said that a case of beating two youths named Saurabh Gupta and Pintu Pandey had come to the fore in Madhuban police station area and a sub-inspector related to Madhuban police station and a police constable were removed and attached with the reserve police lines. He claimed that further action would be taken on the basis of the outcome of the probe.