Video of cops slapping bus driver goes viral

HYDERABAD: A video of traffic cops kicking and slapping a bus driver during a vehicle check at IDPL X roads under Cyberabad commissionerate on Saturday night has gone viral.

Cops said that the bus driver escaped vehicle check at three points and when he was stopped at the barricaded fourth location, he got down from the vehicle and started behaving rudely.

“He misbehaved with our personnel,” said Jeedimetla traffic inspector E. Venkat Reddy.

A case was registered on the bus for wrong time entry and defying orders issued by authorities.

According to sources, traffic personnel were carrying out drunken driving checks in the Jeedimetla traffic PS area. Police stopped the travel bus headed towards Balanagar. The driver jumped three checkpoints and finally stopped at IDPL X roads.

When the constables told him that buses are not allowed to enter the city before 10.30 pm, he picked up an argument with the cops and also misbehaved with them.

The constables called up inspector Venkat Reddy, who was at another check point. When Reddy arrived at the spot, he too was treated badly, they claimed.

The dubious list:

August 2023: LB nagar police personnel beat up a tribal woman confining her in the PS; On being denied action on his complaint, a man immolated himself in front of Malakpet PS and died.

February 2023: An auto-driver picked up for theft, died after alleged torture by the cops in Medak district.

November 2021: A tribal farmer picked up in connection with a case, allegedly tortured by the police in Suryapet district.

September 2021: An SC woman died of alleged police torture in Yadadri Bhongir district.