Punjab Cop Shoots Man In Thigh In Front Of The Camera

Sub-inspector had an argument with the man before he fired his revolver!

On Tuesday, 28 June 2022, a police officer in Dera Bassi in Punjab's Mohali district was suspended and a case filed against him after he shot a man in the thigh during a fight that was caught on camera.

The viral video shows some men and at least one woman having an argument with the sub-inspector before he fires his service revolver and aimed at the man.

The injured man was taken to the Dera Bassi civil hospital and then shifted to a government hospital in nearby Chandigarh where his treatment is going on.

The sub-inspector — Mubarikpur police post in-charge Balwinder Singh — was suspended on Monday and now faces an FIR, too, under Sections 324 (assault) and 354 (outraging modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code, among other charges.

District police Chief Vivek Sheel Soni has ordered a departmental inquiry against three other policemen who are at the spot and were the eye witness. A special investigation team (SIT) headed by a superintendent of police has been formed.

The victim's brother told ANI, "We were standing on Hebatpur Road when police arrived and misbehaved with us. They wanted to check my wife's bag. They were drunk and then fired at my brother."

The sub-inspector has said he fired in self-defence as he was attacked by their family members when they stopped them for checking the bag.

Another policeman who was at the spot told the media that the men tried to rip his uniform. "We were patrolling when we saw a couple standing near the road. We asked them where they had come from. They started fighting with us," he said.

Delhi BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was among those who tweeted the video and criticised Punjab's Aam Aadmi Party government for "police going berserk".