Hyderabad: A day after a police constable in the city was accused of touching a woman medico inappropriately, he was suspended yesterday.
The incident happened during a protest by medical students of Dr BRKR Government Ayurvedic College. The students were staging a protest against the Telangana government’s move to shift the government ayurvedic hospital from the premises of the Government Unani Hospital at Charminar to the Ayurvedic Hospital in Erragadda.
A media report said a video and some photos of the protest went viral on social media. They showed some policemen pushing the protesting students. A policeman in mufti is seen touching the shoulder of one woman in the video.
Students alleged highhandedness and manhandling by the police. Following this the officials said the video would be verified. Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anjani Kumar yesterday suspended Constable K Parmesh of Charminar police station. Further inquiry was ordered into the incident.
State Home Minister Mohammad Mahmood Ali said that female police personnel should be deployed while handling women during such situations.
The agitation by the students intensified after the in-patient ward of the Government Ayurvedic Hospital was vandalised on Tuesday. The media report said Unani students had allegedly asked the staff, doctors and patients to vacate the premises. The next day, AYUSH incharge director reached the place to enquire but protesting students raised slogans and squatted on the road. They gheraoed the director’s car.