A head constable in Kanpur’s Nazirabad police station was removed after a video of him harassing a 16-year-old girl, who had approached him to lodge a complaint of molestation, went viral in the city.
In the video, tweeted out by ANI, the cop, whom NDTV identified as Tar Babu, is seen humiliating the girl by slut shaming her and insinuating that she called for the molestation because she was wearing jewellery.
“Yeh anguthi tum keh pehni ho? Yeh chuda kis liye pehne ho? Yeh kyon dale ho gale mein? Yeh item tum kis liye dale ho gale mein?... Yeh chuda hai, yeh locket hai, yeh chhah chhah anguthi kyon pehni ho? Inse kuch laabh hai inse tumhe? ... Isi se dikhai de jata hai ki tum kya ho. (Why are you wearing these rings? Why are you wearing these bangles, why are you wearing this on your neck? What purpose do these serve for you? This shows what you are),” the policeperson is heard telling the girl.
He then goes on to criticising the family of the girl who was accompanying the girl for not keeping an eye on “what she was up to”.
The video is said to have been recorded by the brother of the girl who was accompanying her.
The NDTV report said that an FIR from the girl was registered only after the video of the incident went viral.
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi also tweeted the video criticising the police for this behaviour.
According to reports, the Uttar Pradesh police have said they were looking into the incident.