By PTI
SIDHI: A journalist and some activists who have been protesting towards the arrest of an artist have been detained and compelled to strip all the way down to their undergarments whereas in police custody in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district.
After the images of the detained individuals in underwear went viral on social media, two native police officers have been transferred, a senior police official stated on Thursday.
An area journalist and a few activists have been protesting “in unauthorised manner” in entrance of the Kotwali police station right here towards the arrest of Neeraj Kunder, director of Indravati Drama School, on April 2.
Kunder had been arrested for allegedly posting defamatory posts on Facebook utilizing a false id towards native BJP MLA Kedar Nath Shukla and his son Gurudutt Sharan Shukla, stated Kotwali police station in-charge Manoj Soni.
A bunch of activists together with native “YouTube journalist” Kanishk Tiwari staged a protest in entrance of the Kotwali police station, shouting slogans towards MLA Shukla and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
According to police officer Soni, they have been detained for protesting with out permission and disrupting peace, and launched on April 3.
But on Thursday, the images of the protestors of their underwear went viral.
Asked concerning the viral images, Soni stated they have been requested to strip all the way down to underwear as a result of generally folks grasp themselves in custody utilizing their garments and this was a safety measure.
After the images displaying the protesters getting humiliated on this approach brought about outrage, Soni and sub-inspector Abhishek Singh have been `line-attached’ (shunted out from discipline obligation) on the chief minister’s order for leaking the pictures, stated a senior police official.
Congress chief Ajay Singh, in a press release, condemned the therapy meted out to journalist Kanishk Tiwari.
“This behaviour of the cops with a journalist not only reflects terror of police, but also the BJP government’s attitude towards the media fraternity and its thinking,” he stated, terming the incident as a direct assault on “democracy’s fourth estate”.
