Video Recordings On Police “Brutality” A Rage On The Web

Patiala: Videos showing police “cruelty” and “rowdiness” are speedily turning popular on the web with more than 5 lakh hits on the social netwoking site, youtube.

Perturbed, the Punjab Police now wants these video recordings to be “restricted for content and checked for genuineness”. Some of these video recordings show police officers hitting, ill-treating citizens or taking bribe.

A senior IPS office stated, “We cannot gag everything going viral on the web, however a mechanism requires to be adopted to check the actuality of these video recordings.”

CSR Reddy, Additional Director General of Police, Information Technology, stated that he would get such video recordings probed.

DS Bains, Principal Secretary, Home Department, added that he would discuss with legal specialists to discover a answer.