{"id":313415,"date":"2019-06-18T05:23:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T05:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313415"},"modified":"2019-06-18T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T05:23:04","slug":"tempo-driver-delhi-cops-clash-protests-outside-mukherjee-nagar-police-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tempo-driver-delhi-cops-clash-protests-outside-mukherjee-nagar-police-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Tempo driver, Delhi cops clash: Protests outside Mukherjee Nagar police station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-313416 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/protests-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/protests-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/protests-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/protests-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/protests-696x478.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/protests-612x420.jpg 612w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/protests.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A large number of people, mainly from the Sikh community, gathered outside the Mukherjee Nagar police station on Monday night against the thrashing of a tempo driver in Mukherjee Nagar by Delhi Police personnel. They demanded sacking of all policemen who were involved in the incident, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A brawl between the tempo driver, and policemen took an ugly turn on Monday after videos went viral on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In one of the purported videos, the tempo driver was seen chasing the policemen with a sword in his hand. In another video, policemen were seen thrashing the driver while overpowering him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP MLA, Manjinder Singh Sirsa had said, \u201cWe had an elaborate meeting with @CPDelhi in which the tempo driver S. Sarabjit Singh was also present. Commissioner Patnaik Ji gave us a patient hearing and agreed that Law is equal for all, be it a uniformed police official or a civilian.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c@CPDelhi has assured us that strictest action will be taken against all police officers under relevant Sections of IPC. He made Sarabjit Singh write a complaint against erring police officers visible in video who will be held accountable &amp; not just the three who are suspended,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201c.@CPDelhi told us that a Joint Comm of Police Northern Range would be enquiring this case &amp; add any other Sections also if needed. The case will be tried outside district. This is a fight of Sarabjit Singh &amp; DSGMC stands in solidarity with him. He is satisfied after this meeting.\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, Delhi Police filed a cross FIR in the case and suspended three police officers, including two Assistant sub-Inspector and a constable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security has been increased in Mukherjee Nagar area, where the incident happened, as the situation remained tensed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large number of people, mainly from the Sikh community, gathered outside the Mukherjee Nagar police station on Monday night against the thrashing of a tempo driver in Mukherjee Nagar by Delhi Police personnel. They demanded sacking of all policemen who were involved in the incident, police said. A brawl between the tempo driver, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,11506],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313417,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313415\/revisions\/313417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}