A singer and lyricist has alleged misbehaviour by a policeman of the Aarey Colony police station Tuesday late night. A DCP-level inquiry has been ordered in the case.
A singer and lyricist has alleged misbehaviour by a policeman of the Aarey Colony police station Tuesday late night. A DCP-level inquiry has been ordered in the case. Singer Vandana Vadhera had accused a police constable of insulting and misbehaving with her on social networking sites, Facebook and Twitter, and filed a complaint. Following this, police officials promptly launched a probe into the incident.
DCP of Zone 12 M. Ramkumar said, “I’m personally probing the incident and within two to three days I will prepare a inquiry report which will be handed over to our senior officials who will take further action.”
On Friday, Ms Vadhera will visit the office of the DCP to give her statement.
The Delhi-based 34-year-old singer has been living in Mumbai for the past five years. Ms Vadhera, who recently composed the songs for a movie Mere Ginnie Uncle, owns a flat in Royal Palm in Goregaon (east) and was traveling from the airport to her house in an Uber cab on January 5 at about 1 am. Suddenly, her cab was stopped by a local policeman near the Aarey check naka. According to Ms Vadhera, a constable identified as Hemant Sawant, started inquiring with the car driver about where he was going and from where he was coming. Subsequently, the constable started asking questions to Ms Vadhera and demanded to see her identification card and address proof. Further, he allegedly made a remark that he “knew what kind of people stay in the Royal Palms area”.
The policeman then used an offensive term (prostitute) to describe the singer. The singer has recorded the incident in her mobile. She went to Aarey Colony police station next day to file a complaint but allegedly the police officials refused to register an FIR and only accepted a hand-written complaint letter.
