Four police officials suspended for allegedly assaulting Dalit BJP leader in Prayagraj

Four police personnel have been suspended for allegedly assaulting Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manoj Pasi at the Jhunsi police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj, PTI reported on Thursday.

Pasi is the state co-treasurer of the BJP’s Scheduled Caste Morcha.

He has alleged that station house officer Upendra Pratap Singh and six other policemen, including sub-inspectors and constables, assaulted him when he had gone to the police station on Wednesday to ask why construction work at his brother’s house was stopped, reported The Indian Express.

Vinal Kishor Mishra, the assistant police commissioner of Jhunsi, told the newspaper that four police personnel – three sub-inspectors and a constable – were suspended with immediate effect after the allegations came to light.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (City) Abhishek Bharti stated that a departmental inquiry had been initiated against the suspended personnel.

No action has been taken against the station house officer so far, according to The Indian Express.

Pasi told the newspaper that the construction of a boundary wall was underway on a piece of land his brother had bought four years ago. However, the police stopped the work based on his neighbour’s complaint and also “hurled abuses” at him and his brother, he alleged.

“I went to the police station around 12 noon on Wednesday and was asking the SHO and local…

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