An inquiry was ordered into the death of a 49-year-old ambulance driver on Friday after he was allegedly hit by police in Pune on suspicion that he was ferrying passengers illegally in his vehicle during the lockdown.
Pimpri Chinchwad’s additional commissioner of police Ramnath Pokale confirmed that an investigation has been initiated. The case came to light when the son of the ambulance driver, who was accompanying him when the incident occurred, said they were stopped at a toll naka and the policemen assaulted his father. He claimed they were allowed to proceed only after making a payment of Rs 3,000 to cops. The video of the crying man has now gone viral.
But it’s hardly the only video of its kind. Social media is flooded with footage of police highhandedness, attracting shock from across the country, as they punish people for coming out of their homes in the lockdown. The Pimpri Chinchwad incident comes days after another viral video showed three Punjab cops raining blows with lathi on the soles of a young boy’s feet as he cries in pain and for mercy.
And in Badaun, migrant labourers on their way back home were
