An Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police with the Kuruppampady police station has been suspended from duty following allegations of misbehaviour.
Officials said the ASI allegedly shouted at a person who had called up the station two months ago to lodge a complaint.
He has been placed under suspension after S. Sreejith, Inspector General of Police, Ernakulam range, examined an audio recording of his telephonic conversation with the complainant.
“The complainant, a local resident, had called up the station around 12 midnight to inform that a couple of unidentified persons were lying drunk in front of his shop at Kuruppampady junction. Instead of responding proactively, the policeman retorted the caller, even asking him to appear in person at the station next day morning,’’ the IG said.
According to Mr. Sreejith, the incident took place exactly a month after the brutal murder of a Dalit law student nearby.
Links with murder
“The fact that the policeman did not even bother to check whether these unidentified men had any links with the murder is even more a serious lapse,’’ he said.
The ASI will be under suspension till an internal probe into the incident is over and stern action will be initiated him, if found guilty, Mr. Sreejith said.
Official sources identified the caller as Nizar who runs a restaurant, hardly a kilometre from the house where the Dalit law student was murdered.
ASI allegedly shouted at a person who had called up the station two months ago to lodge a complaint
