Even as a red-faced IAS association condemned vigilante officer Nikhil Nirmal’s act of thrashing a man who reportedly made lewd comments on his wife’s Facebook page – exhibiting a shocking disregard for the rule of law – the wheels appear to be turning to put pressure on the youth caught up in this high drama.

Even as a red-faced IAS association condemned vigilante officer Nikhil Nirmal’s act of thrashing a man who reportedly made lewd comments on his wife’s Facebook page – exhibiting a shocking disregard for the rule of law – the wheels appear to be turning to put pressure on the youth caught up in this high drama.

The officer has been now shunted out from his post. Read all the details

The video of Binod Kumar being thrashed in Falakata station had gone viral on Sunday night and drawn widespread condemnation on social media with many users shocked by the naked abuse of power.

Relatives of Binod Kumar - the youth who was thrashed for making the comments – claims they were being pressurised to drop the case. They claim that on Monday night at 11:30 PM, they were visited police officials in their Falakata house stating that Binod would be given a job as civic police if he dropped the charges. The police have denied this allegation.

On Tuesday, Binod Kumar was admitted to the Falakata Super Speciality Hospital after complaining of chest pain. Meanwhile, Binod’s father and brother claim that they when they went to file an FIR at 2:30 PM, they were asked to file a fresh FIR claiming the handwriting was indecipherable. They were kept waiting at the station till 5:45PM when a fresh FIR was finally filed.

Upon returning to the hospital, they found that Binod wasn’t present there.

The hospital authorities said that Binod was not admitted and was merely taken in for observation and he left after a while.

However, his relatives panicked and later he was found at 9:15PM at a human rights worker’s house.