Lucknow: The police official from Deoria district, who was caught on camera masturbating in front of a woman complainant inside the police station, has been sacked from the service with immediate effect, the government said in a statement, late on Wednesday night. First he was suspended, then arrested and finally terminated from service.
The statement read, “The accused cop Bhisham Pal Singh, Station House Officer (SHO) of Bhatni Police Station in Deoria district, has been arrested from a village in the neighbouring Basti district. He had gone missing after a complaint was filed against him Tuesday.”
He was suspended immediately and found missing when a police team launched a search.
An FIR was registered against the police inspector at the same police station on charges of voyeurism, outraging the modesty of a woman, and public servant disobeying the law, the SP Deoria, Shripati Mishra said.
A video of the Singh masturbating in front of a woman complainant at the police station had gone viral on various social media platforms. The incident took place on June 22 when a mother-daughter duo approached him with a complaint related to a land dispute.
The women told local media Singh allegedly made lewd gestures at them a couple of times as they approached him for the land issue. On June 22, they decided to film his act and then shared it in the neighbourhood, eventually leading to a demand for action by locals.
A native of Etah, the SHO was nabbed in neighbouring Basti district where he had been hiding after the video went viral.
Meanwhile, family members of SHO Bisham Pal Singh a father of four, said they were ‘shocked’ at what had happened and wanted to ‘apologize’ to the woman complainant.
(Inputs from IANS)
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