This story is from August 26, 2014

SHO among 4 cops suspended for assaulting constable

Four policemen, including a station house officer (SHO), are in the dock for allegedly assaulting a constable in a police station to appease an Akali municipal councillor here.
SHO among 4 cops suspended for assaulting constable
AMRITSAR: Four policemen, including a station house officer (SHO), are in the dock for allegedly assaulting a constable in a police station to appease an Akali municipal councillor here. Gate Hakiman SHO Upkar Singh and head constables Kulwant Singh, Balwinder Singh and Satpal Singh allegedly beat up constable Dilbagh Singh.
All the accused have been suspended while SHO Upkar and head constable Satpal were arrested and produced before the court, which remanded them to judicial custody till September 8.
Two other accused -- Kulwant and Balwinder -- are still at large.
Victim Dilbagh, who met the vice-chairman of the National Commission for Schedule Castes Raj Kumar Verka, informed that he organized a "mela" (fair) every year at Peer Shah Dargah to spread message against drug abuse.
"Local municipal councilor and his followers used to object to this and would intimidate me," alleged Dilbagh. He said this year he had published the pamphlets of the ?mela', which didn't have photographs of the councilor which irked him. He said the councilor complained to SHO Upkar who called him at police station and thrashed him.
Verka said he visited the house of victim Dilbagh and got his statement recorded.
Meanwhile, Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha and local MP Captain Amarinder Singh has condemned the beating up of a police constable by his own colleagues.
The former Punjab CM regretted that the SHO had acted on the behest of an Akali leader and had shown no mercy or respect to his own colleague. He said, "This is what we have been consistently bringing to everybody's notice that the Akalis are misusing police for personal ends. This time they had used one police personnel against another."
"If a policeman in uniform is not safe from the arm twisting and hoodwinking by the Akalis, what should be the plight of a common man," he questioned, while calling for strict action against the guilty SHO and other accused policemen who thrashed their colleague to please their Akali masters.
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