Four Agra cops booked for assaulting milk seller
Agra, Jan. 21 -- Four cops, including a sub-inspector, posted at Jeoni Mandi police outpost were booked for allegedly assaulting a milk seller in Agra earlier this month.
The sub-inspector who was in-charge of the outpost has been suspended by Police Commissioner Agra, Deepak Kumar.
The police outpost incharge, sub inspector Ravindra and constables Raj Behari, Sanjay and Sunny Pal were booked through FIR registered recently at Chhatta police station of Agra Police Commissionerate under section 126(2) (wrongful restrain) and 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) of Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS).
Deputy commissioner of police (city) Syed Ali Abbas had earlier said the action was taken after the aggrieved man approached him and narrated the incident.
"In the initial inquiry, the conduct of the Jeoni Mandi chowki in-charge, sub-inspector Ravindra Kumar, was found to be unjust and he was suspended," Abbas said.
Milk seller Narendra Kushwaha had alleged that he was brutally beaten by the outpost in-charge after he said he was unable to drive an autorickshaw. He alleged that his toenails were pulled out and he was assaulted, and later he was booked for breach of peace.
According to Kushwaha, he sells milk door to door in an autorickshaw driven by his brother, Dheeraj.
On January 2, while Dheeraj had gone for deliveries in Garib Nagar locality, Narendra was seated in the vehicle when the police arrived following reports of a local dispute.
The outpost in-charge asked Narendra to drive the autorickshaw to the police outpost.
When he declined, saying he did not know how to drive, he was allegedly taken to the outpost and assaulted following which Kushwaha met the deputy commissioner of police and lodged a complaint leading to suspension....
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