A station house officer of Kaushambi police station in Ghaziabad has been pulled up by senior officers after videos surfaced on social media showing him allegedly tying a device to a man and claiming it proved that he was a Bangladeshi national.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Indirapuram Abhishek Srivastava said the SHO Ajay Sharma has been reprimanded and strictly warned against using such methods in the future. “He has been cautioned and admonished for adopting the wrong tactics,” the ACP said.
At the same time, the ACP defended the officer’s intent, saying the SHO was trying to create psychological pressure on the man and his daughter to verify their identity. “The officer was attempting to bring out the truth, but the method adopted was incorrect,” Srivastava added.
According to police sources, the incident took place on December 23 when the Kaushambi SHO was conducting a search operation in shanties in the Kaushambi area. During the drive, the officer questioned a man and his daughter about their native place.
The daughter told the police that the family belonged to Araria district in Bihar and showed documents stored on her mobile phone to support her claim. She also told the police that the family had been living in the shanties since 1986.
Despite this, the SHO allegedly accused them of lying and claimed they were from Bangladesh. Sources said the officer then tied a device around the waist of the girl’s father and told them that the machine had identified him as a Bangladeshi national.
