Source: newindianexpress.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on \nWednesday came down heavily on the city police for the assault on a \ntempo driver and his minor son in northwest Delhi\u2019s Mukherjee Nagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Noting that it was an \u201cevidence of \npolice brutality\u201d, a division bench of Justices Jayant Nath and Najmi \nWaziri asked the Union Home Ministry and the city police to file a \nreport within a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHow can any uniformed force do this? This would scare the citizens that the uniformed force is acting in this manner. Would create disquiet in the society. You (police) have to show you are with the citizens. That is what the citizens, including children, want,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The high court listed the matter for \nJuly 2 for further hearing after taking up the pleas seeking \ncompensation to the victims of the incident and a court-monitored \ninvestigation in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While one petition was filed by Seema \nSinghal through two advocates, the other was filed by businessman \nManjeet Singh Chugh. The court pulled up the Delhi Police, which said \nthe case was transferred to the Crime Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Sunday, a minor incident of road rage turned resulted in some policemen assaulting auto-driver Sarabjeet Singh, who had threatened them with his \u2018kirpan\u2019.\u00a0 Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik has already submitted a report about the case to Union Home secretary Rajiv Gauba after it snowballed into a major political row in Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The petitioner alleged barbaric, \nhorrific and malafide use of power as the father-son duo were beaten up \nby sticks and pistol butts by several policemen after Sarabjeet\u2019s Gramin\n Sewa auto brushed against a police vehicle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The excessive force and brutality led to\n unrest amongst the general public at large who amassed in huge numbers \nin front of the Mukherjee Nagar police station, the petitioners said. \nWith agency inputs<\/p>\n