Himachal police head constable’s video allegations against senior officer sparks controversy

Himachalscape bureau June 13, 2024 3 minutes read

Shimla, June 13

A Himachal Pradesh Police Investigation Officer and Head Constable Jasveer accused Senior police officer for influencing in a roiting case.

A Video of the same wherein IO made the accusations has gone viral on the social media, even shared by state BJP. In the video the policeman can be seen and heard blaming Senior Officer to book an accused under stringent sections of IPC.

The Head constable said that was snubbed by the SP Sirmour for not accepting the illegitimate demand of victim to book the accused of roiting case under attempt to murder.

In the video the IO said that he didn’t find any thing like a heinous crime and a mere roiting case was being influenced.

In the video the policeman IO claimed that he refused to obey the senior police officer to work in a particular fashion and in the social media post the IO in question stated that he wanted to tender resignation under duress.

It is learnt that IO also offered to transfer the case to other IO as he refused to not invoke any section on the whim of Senior officer terming such instructions illegitimate.

However the SP Sirmour denies such allegations and issued rebuttal on the social media posts of IO. SP said that in matter of June 8, 2024, a local tractor driver of Kala Amb, his father and uncle were beaten badly by youths riding in a Scorpio from Punjab for not giving them a pass, after which on the complaint of the local youth, Kala Amb.

A case was lodged under section 341, 323, 147, 148, 149 IPC was registered against the youth of Punjab in Amb police station. The video of this incident also went viral.

The media communique by SP stated that the investigation of this case was handed over to investigation officer HC Jasvir posted at Kala Amb police station, but local people were unhappy with the investigation and behavior of HC Jasvir.

In this regard the higher authorities were informed by the local people. When the file was checked by higher officials, many irregularities were found in the investigation.

On which HC Jasveer was instructed to conduct the investigation regularly as per the law, stated the media note of the police.

But without any reason, today HC Jasveer has made a video viral on social media in which he is making irresponsible and false allegations against the top officials of the police department and tarnishing the image of the police department.

SP issuing rebuttal on the allegations made by HC Jasvir through videos on social media are irresponsible and false, which the District Police denies.

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