Kotfatta SHO shifted to lines
Bathinda, June 4 -- Kotfatta station house officer (SHO) Manish Kumar was transferred to the police lines on Tuesday for allegedly intimidating Lakhvir Singh Sidhu, a vlogger from Bhai Bhaktaur village.
The disciplinary action against the SHO, an inspector-rank officer, came after Sidhu posted a video last night, accusing Kumar of threatening to implicate him in fabricated cases.
Bathinda senior superintendent of police (SSP) Amneet Kondal did not respond to queries on whether the vlogger had shared any audio or video evidence to buttress his claims of police harassment.
On Sunday, Sidhu had posted a video on his Facebook page with a poster in the backdrop that read 'village on sale' and claimed that the residents wanted to leave the village as they were intimidated by drug traffickers.
The vlogger cited the example of an ex-serviceman, Ranvir Singh, who was allegedly assaulted by drug traders. Two persons were arrested in this case. The vlogger claimed that the SHO was objecting to his video that residents of Bhai Bakhtaur village want to put their village on sale due to intimidation by drug traffickers.
In a video statement issued on Tuesday, SSP Kondal said she visited the victim, Ranvir Singh, at a private hospital in Bathinda and told him about the arrest of the main accused under attempt-to-murder and wrongful restraint charges....
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