A Telangana police home guard was arrested and dismissed from service on Saturday after a video allegedly showing him assaulting a woman and dragging her by her hair outside Hyderabad’s Hafeezpet Railway Station went viral on social media.
“There is no question of tolerating such inhuman behaviour by the police towards women. Citizens who witnessed the incident reportedly intervened and asked him to let the woman go. The Miyapur police registered a case against Anand under Sections 74 (use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty) and 118(1) (voluntarily causing hurt using dangerous weapons or means) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Anand was performing patrolling duty in the Miyapur area at around 10 pm on Friday night when he was allegedly caught on camera assaulting the woman near Platform No, according to the FIR. 1, on the Aditya Nagar side of Hafeezpet Railway Station.
The home guard, Anand, who was deployed at Hafeezpet railway station on deputation to the railway police, would be produced before the local court for judicial remand, Cyberabad police commissioner M Ramesh said. We shall take stringent action against the accused home guard,” Ramesh said. “We are investigating the circumstances surrounding the altercation and the assault,” the police commissioner said. The Miyapur police said the woman was a ragpicker/beggar and that she had allegedly abused the home guard before the assault. “The home guard had been repatriated to the Telangana state police department for necessary disciplinary action,” the SCR said.
On Saturday morning, the Secunderabad Central Railway (SCR) posted on X, saying the matter had been enquired into and confirming that the personnel involved was a Telangana police home guard deputed to the railway station.
