In a bizarre incident, 12 policemen called the state police control room and requested to be ‘rescued’ as they were virtually confined in a small room at Karai Police Academy in Gandhinagar since early morning yesterday.
A control room official said,
They are not held captive by anyone. They had been only asked by a senior IPS officer to sit at one place in a bungalow inside Police Academy since morning. The policemen got tired and called the control room late evening, asking to help them get out of there.
The control room officials passed the message to seniors. The distressed policemen claimed that they were not given any food or water by the officer who had ordered them to sit in the room, police officials said.
The IPS officer declined to have confined his staff but said he wanted to teach discipline to his men, according to a report in The Times of India quoting the Additional DGP and Joint Director of Karai Academy in Gandhinagar KK Oza.
The report also quoted sources as saying that the IPS officer did not receive his newspaper three days back at his official bungalow and “summoned his staff on Wednesday, confined them into the garage of the bungalow to teach them a lesson.”
More interesting details came in later when editor of a Gujarat daily tweeted that an FIR was registered against the IPS officer’s wife.
(With PTI inputs)
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