Gujarat's home department is inquiring into a complaint by policemen.
Gandhinagar:
Gujarat's home department is inquiring into a complaint by a group of more than a dozen policemen in Gujarat, who have alleged that a senior officer "held them captive" in his garage for over 12 hours on Wednesday, because he wanted to "punish" them.
The garage had no door, but, ordered to stay in the cramped garage, not a single cop stepped out till about 8 pm on Wednesday, when they phoned an SOS to the police control room. After they had called the local media.
As proof of their misery over hours, the cops shared a video that they shot on a cell-phone as, they alleged, they awaited further orders from their senior, Additional Director General of Police Technical Services Vipul Vijoy at whose garage they were made to wait.
On the video, the policemen, many in uniform, are crowded into the small, cluttered room.
The policemen said Mr Vijoy had summoned a team of 17 personnel, including a sub-inspector and four drivers attached to the technical wing to his official residence on the outskirts of Gandhinagar early on Wednesday morning, ostensibly for an assignment.
When they arrived, alleged PSI PC Sachade, the senior officer was not home but they were herded by a guard into the garage and told to wait inside for further instructions from the ADGP.
"We were told to just sit in the garage, Mr Vijoy did not come, nobody did. We were not assigned any work, said Mr Sachade, alleging that they were neither served any food or water, nor were they allowed to step out to get some.
After more than 12 hours, the policemen said, they called up the police control room and the local media. A police team rushed to the bungalow and brought them back to DGPs office.
Mr Vijoy has denied the allegations and has accused the group of policemen of neglecting their official duties.
''These staffers are radio operators and there have been several complaints of disruptions of network connectivity at police stations and instead of attending to them they have been ignoring their work," said Mr Vijoy.
"I told them they just cannot work till the normal working hours since its police department and ordered them to come to my residence to operate out of my temporary office...gave them two walkie talkies as well. They were not held captive. They were supposed to work there,'' he added.
The garage had no door, but, ordered to stay in the cramped garage, not a single cop stepped out till about 8 pm on Wednesday, when they phoned an SOS to the police control room. After they had called the local media.
As proof of their misery over hours, the cops shared a video that they shot on a cell-phone as, they alleged, they awaited further orders from their senior, Additional Director General of Police Technical Services Vipul Vijoy at whose garage they were made to wait.
On the video, the policemen, many in uniform, are crowded into the small, cluttered room.
The policemen said Mr Vijoy had summoned a team of 17 personnel, including a sub-inspector and four drivers attached to the technical wing to his official residence on the outskirts of Gandhinagar early on Wednesday morning, ostensibly for an assignment.
When they arrived, alleged PSI PC Sachade, the senior officer was not home but they were herded by a guard into the garage and told to wait inside for further instructions from the ADGP.
"We were told to just sit in the garage, Mr Vijoy did not come, nobody did. We were not assigned any work, said Mr Sachade, alleging that they were neither served any food or water, nor were they allowed to step out to get some.
After more than 12 hours, the policemen said, they called up the police control room and the local media. A police team rushed to the bungalow and brought them back to DGPs office.
Mr Vijoy has denied the allegations and has accused the group of policemen of neglecting their official duties.
''These staffers are radio operators and there have been several complaints of disruptions of network connectivity at police stations and instead of attending to them they have been ignoring their work," said Mr Vijoy.
"I told them they just cannot work till the normal working hours since its police department and ordered them to come to my residence to operate out of my temporary office...gave them two walkie talkies as well. They were not held captive. They were supposed to work there,'' he added.
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