SHO moved after video shows him beating man

The station house officer of Sunlight Colony police station in southeast Delhi has been shunted to the district lines after a video clip surfaced which purportedly shows he and his team assaulting a man who later turned out to be the husband of a police sub-inspector.

Inspector Pradip Kumar Paliwal, SHO of Sunlight Colony, has been sent to district lines and an inquiry initiated to probe his conduct, joint commissioner of police (southeast) R.P. Upadhyay said.

The matter came to light when the sub-inspector approached the top brass on Tuesday with the two-minute-long video clip in which Paliwal and his men were seen slapping her husband several times after an argument at a local eatery and later dragging him towards the main road. The sub-inspector told officials that her husband had rented out the premises to a man who runs an eatery and he (husband) was being harassed for alleged encroachment.

During investigation, it emerged that the man who could be seen being beaten up in the video was named in a rioting case. The investigating officer in the case has now been instructed to file the chargesheet only after consulting the concerned DCP.

Meanwhile, an additional DCP-rank officer has been tasked with monitoring all developments in connection with the matter.