TARN TARAN (PUNJAB): Four cops thrashed a 25-year-old woman and her ex-serviceman father (60) after she approached them to register a case against some truck drivers, who had passed lewd remarks and attempted to molest her in Punjab’s Taran Taran town.

The incident came to light on Monday after the video clip of the thrashing a day earlier surfaced. The clip caught the cops on camera abusing, pushing, and beating the two with canes publically.

The father was attacked after he tried to stop the policemen from hitting his daughter. He said the drivers came too close to his daughter and passed obscene remarks while they were standing outside a marriage hall in Taran Taran, where they had arrived earlier from their village to attend a wedding.

“I tried to stop the drivers but they turned hostile. So, we complained to the nearby city police station,” he said. He said the cops abused him and his daughter instead of acting against them. “These four cops came to the marriage hall to talk to the drivers. After talking to them, the cops turned to us and started abusing us and asked us to run away from the spot,” said the father. “And then all of a sudden the policemen got angry when my daughter and I protested. They started hitting her first. They slapped her, hit her with canes, pushed her around and abused her in full public view."

He said no one tried to rescue them from the cops. “The passersby stopped for a while, looked at us and then moved on,” he said. The beating continued till the two fell on the ground.

IG RP Mittal identified two of the four constables as Saraj Singh and Devender Kumar and said they have been transferred to police lines till an inquiry ordered into the incident is concluded. “Any action will be taken after the inquiry,” he said.

Despite an outcry, no case had been registered against the cops till Monday evening.

The incident provoked outrage as dozens of people gathered outside Tarn Taran City police station to protest.

