Varanasi Cop Suspended After Video Of Him Damaging Maize Cart Goes Viral

Lucknow:

A sub-inspector in Uttar Pradesh’s Varanasi district has been suspended and a departmental inquiry initiated in opposition to him after he was caught throwing maize off a hawker’s cart after which upturning it in a video clip.

The deplorable act was circulated extensively on the web after which the police apologised to the hawker and compensated him for the loss.

The 30-second clip exhibits Sub-Inspector Varun Kumar Shashi scooping up cobs of corn off the cart of a maize vendor in Shivpur space of Varanasi and throwing them throughout the highway, seemingly conscious that it would not hit oncoming visitors however will get broken. He then overturns the cart and rides away.

Video is right here ????https://t.co/Vxk9UuB3OI

— अनूप त्रिपाठी पथिक (@anoop29220) August 10, 2020

Inside hours of the video going viral on Monday, the Varanasi Police launched a clip of an officer apologising to the seller for his colleague’s misbehaviour, assuring him of economic help.

“A video goes viral on social media displaying Sub-Inspector Varun Kumar Shashi overturning a maize-laden hand cart in Shivpur space of Varanasi. The policeman has been suspended, departmental inquiry initiated. Compensation has been given to the handcart proprietor,” the Varanasi Police mentioned in an announcement.

It isn’t identified what prompted Sub-Inspector Shashi’s outburst, however sources mentioned the seller was persevering with to promote his produce even after the native lockdown got here into impact at 5pm.

Weeks earlier in June and Might, studies of the police damaging greens in small markets of Prayagraj and Meerut, respectively, have been reported when the coronavirus lockdown was in place.

Whereas a cop was suspended in Prayagraj, a departmental inquiry was initiated into the Meerut incident after outrage from the general public and politicians who criticised the police for hurting individuals’s supply of meals and livelihood.