India | Posted on Jul 26, 2007 at 09:21pm IST

Noida cops thrash student for 'talking' to girl

Raheel KhursheedRaheel Khursheed, CNN-IBN

Noida: Possibly under pressure for a spate of crimes against women- police in Noida seem to going off the other end. A young student on Thursday faced the worst police brutality, simply because they saw him talking to a girl.

Sudhir Sharma got a generous dose of moral policing by three constables of the Noida Police.

He was allegedly talking to a female friend at the Sector 55 market of Noida when the three cops approached him, bundled him into their van and beat him up, banging his head on a support rod in the vehicle time and again.

Sudhir was then taken to the Sector 58 police station.

The three police officers involved have been suspended after an initial inquiry. A case has been registered against the cops for injuring the boy and a departmental inquiry has been ordered as well.

Says SSP Noida, A S Ganesh, "We have suspended the three constables after we found that the prima facie evidence pointed out that it was a case of high handedness."

And the people of Noida are irked by this unwarranted moral policing effort on the part of Noida Police.

They say it's unfair to intrude into the private affairs and that this was a clear case of human rights violation.

Even as SSP Noida was quick to act against the erring cops, post-Nithari, this really is publicity that the Noida Police can do away with.

(For updates you can share with your friends, follow IBNLive on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest)

Comments (5)

All comments will be published after moderation

Trending Searches

#Tobacco #Hansie Cronje #Narendra Modi #Nitin Gadkari #Viswanathan Anand #Multiple sclerosis #Shahrukh Khan #Indian Railways #Essar Group #Bilcare #Narendra Modi #Nitin Gadkari #Jagan #Naveen Patnaik #Raj Thackeray #Bharat Bandh #Andhra Pradesh #Manmohan Singh #VK Singh