Woman cop transferred for publicly shaming man, daughter
By Express News Service
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The girl senior civil police officer, who misbehaved with a 38-year-old man and his eight-year-old daughter on Friday night close to Attingal, was transferred out of the Pink patrol drive and posted to Kollam for 15-days behavioural coaching primarily based on a report filed by the Special Branch and the native police.
C P Rejitha stoked controversy when she publicly humiliated Thonnakkal-native Jayachandran and his daughter alleging that they had stolen her cell phone from the pink patrol automobile. The father-daughter duo had arrived at Monnummukku to witness the motion of an enormous trailer, carrying tools, to VSSC in Thiruvananthapuram.
The police officer quickly began accusing Jayachandran of stealing her cell phone, as she was unable to search out it within the patrol automotive. She claimed she noticed him take the telephone from the automobile and move it on to his daughter. The cop additional demanded that the father-daughter duo come to the police station for additional questioning and bodily examination after which the kid burst into tears.
The crowd which had assembled within the space turned agitated when the telephone was recovered from the seat cowl of the pink patrol automotive after one other girl cop with Rejitha made a name to the police officer’s quantity. The crowd demanded motion in opposition to the cop for publicly shaming the duo, particularly a baby.
Thiruvananthapuram Range DIG Sanjay Kumar Gurudin mentioned the police officer “should have made proper verification regarding the whereabouts of her missing phone before enquiring, thereby causing inconvenience to the person and creating a scene in public. WCPO Rejitha should have apologised regarding the inconvenience caused as a matter of courtesy, which was not done (sic).”
However, he didn’t totally condemn Rejitha’s motion. “As per inquiry, the lady senior civil police officer reacted naturally when she discovered her telephone was lacking. He added that she didn’t ‘misbehave or over react in the situation’.
