Srinagar, Jan 20 : Police
started investigation into YouTube video showing stripping, beating of teenagers
by police in held Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
A police spokesman said
that an FIR has been registered and are investigating the veracity of the video.
The video clip shows around dozen policemen with an officer sitting in a chair
stripping two teenagers and thrashing them ruthlessly.
Titled ‘Kashmir:
Indian militiamen assault detained Kashmiri teenagers’, 2.15 minute video clip,
is showing two teenagers being stripped and beaten up ruthlessly with a senior
officer witnessing the scene.
The video has recorded more than 2000 hits.
Even, Twitter, users following Chief Minister Omar Abdullah forwarded the clip
to him to seek his response.
A police spokesman told Greater Kashmir
that that a case has been registered. “We will carry out thorough investigation
and will try to find out whether the video was uploaded with criminal intent,”
he said and added that persons responsible uploading the video would be
identified.
The spokesman made it clear that incase policemen are found
involved in the act, they too would be taken to task. “Law will take its own
course and those involved will have face to the wrath,” he said.
The
spokesman said that every angle of the video is being looked into. “We will also
try to ascertain that video might be of year 2010, when the Valley witnessed
large scale protests,” he added.
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