Outrage is too mild a word to express what I felt after seeing this.
Apparently, it is such a common method of ‘extracting confessions’ that the police ‘officer’(?) himself doesn’t think he did any wrong!! No wonder he was comfortable enough to perform his actions in the presence of a journalist with a camera.
How Naive.
Or Stupid.
Or Barbaric.
Obviously, the suspended officer would be called back. And this matter would die a silent death.
The woman, if I may guess, will not file any charges against the policemen.
A case of “समुन्दर मे रहकर मगरमच्छ से बैर”, I think.
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Edited to Add :-
On a different note, please consider the statement , “A freelance journalist, who claims he was not in a position to prevent the incident, caught it on camera”.
I guess this stems from being answerable for not initiating an objection. Maybe this statement comes from prior experience of facing the public flak, like in the case of Mangalore pub attacks (where the camera men were too busy capturing the action to do the right thing and prevent women from being beaten up by goons) or the case where a cameraman was specifically called by a woman and her relatives to beat up the woman’s husband’s alleged ‘mistress’.
The channel is absolved of all social responsibilities because their camera men ‘were not in a position to prevent the incident’.
Right.
Because, if they were, then they wouldn’t have the ‘incident’ to report, would they??
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