Cop 'slaps' BJP worker, is moved to control room

A verbal altercation between a BJP worker and a police official at a police station after which one of them slapped the other has led to the cop being moved to the control room BJP workers allege it was the cop who slapped the worker while a police source says it was the other way round Following the incident in the wee hours of Thursday BJP MP Kirit Somaiya visited Parksite police station yesterdayBJP MP Kirit Somaiya went to the police station after the incident He said he had received complaints about the cop earlier File picThe incident followed the complaint of a 15yearold girl who was allegedly approached on the road by another BJP worker Sunil Yadav 21 who also held her hand After the girls father complained to Yadavs father about the incident Yadav and his friends allegedly thrashed him the girls father He later complained to the Parksite police station Yadav was arrested in half an hour and charged under Sections 363 kidnapping 354A physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures 504 intentional insult 506 criminal intimidation of IPC and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act POCSO Around 12 am on Thursday another BJP worker Dilip Matkar arrived and allegedly asked the investigating officer to not file a case He also took Yadav aside to speak to him The officer told him not to do so and Matkar allegedly slapped himAccording to a police officer ldquoBJP worker Dilip Matkar came to the police station at midnight and asked the investigating officer Vikas Raut not to file the case He also took Yadav aside to talk to him but when Raut told him that he could not talk to Yadav as he is in police custody Matkar slapped him Till 5 am BJP workers protested demanding action against RautrdquoDCP Vinay Rathod said ldquoThere is an allegation that an officer of Parksite police station misbehaved with a BJP worker from Parksite An inquiry has been initiatedrdquoAsked if the investigating officer was transferred DCP Rathod said ldquoNot transferred He has been temporarily attached to the control room till the completion of inquiryrdquoSomaiya meets policeFollowing the issue yesterday BJP MP Kirit Somaiya went to the Parksite police station He told midday later ldquoMatkar may be at the police station for any reason but he was slapped by the investigating officer After we got to know this at our office a few workers went there to look into the matter Thats when the investigating officer apologised and said whatever happened was wrong and that he had lost his temper and asked us to close the issue When I went to the police station yesterday at 1230 pm the acting senior police inspector told me that it was their officer who had done something wrong and he also apologised for the samerdquoSomaiya added ldquoIf Matkar had done something wrong there the officer had liberty to prosecute him but if the officer was wrong then strong action should be takenrdquo He claimed he had received complaints about the policeman earlierMinors storyThe 15yearold said ldquoOn Wednesday morning when I was going home from school Sunil Yadav stopped me in the middle of the road and held my hand He tried to give me his number and told me to call him I informed my father about the incident My father then spoke to Yadavs father about the incidentrdquoShe added ldquoThe next day Yadav along with 34 friends came to our place and assaulted my father At about 9 pm we filed an FIR against YadavrdquoHer father did not comment on the incident between the BJP worker and the policeman He only said ldquoAfter we registered the FIR on Thursday night I asked my daughter and wife to go home At midnight BJP worker Dilip Matkar came and was talking to Police Sub Inspector Vikas Raut regarding our case After sometime I was asked to go inside the police station and Matkar was still talking to Raut Matkar did not approach merdquo