A policeman was caught on camera slapping a young woman in a Ghaziabad police station on Monday night.
The police claimed that the woman and her male friend were found drinking in a parked car but the issue has apparently snowballed into a major controversy with the UP police being accused of moral policing.
A young girl, picked up by the police along with her boyfriend allegedly in an inebriated condition, was slapped by a woman in plainclothes inside a police station here, prompting her to hit back.
“The police has misbehaved with me and that is why I reacted. If a person is abused repeatedly then that person has right to object and right to argue also. If they call me a prostitute, then one should argue. I am not a prostitute and nobody has the right to speak to me like that,” the girl retorted.
TV footage showed a woman in plain clothes slapping the unidentified girl following which she hit back and was caught hold of by other policemen present.
Talking to reporters, ADG (law and order) Arun Kumar said that the boy and the girl were found in an objectionable position in a car in the Shalimar garden area of Ghaziabad.
The people of the area took them to the police station and the couple misbehaved with the police. He said that the police had filed a case under Sections 160 and 294 and for drunken driving after their medical examination confirmed that the couple was drunk.
Meanwhile, the state government has asked Ghaziabad SSP Nitin Tiwari to probe the incident and submit his report.
IG (STF) Ashish Gupta said that the TV footage of the incident would be examined and other witnesses would be examined before arriving at any conclusion.
Reacting to the incident, NCW chairperson Mamta Sharma said, “She must not be drunk and even if she was drunk then the police had no right to slap her.”
The police could have waited for her to get back to normal.”
She demanded that the Uttar Pradesh government to take action on this incident.