The viral video showing the Assam Police physically assaulting the influencer, Ranveer Allahbadia has sparked controversy:
“The anger directed towards the police force for how they handled the social media influencer has gone viral on different social media platforms with people asserting that the Assam Police is now beating up social media influencers. This comes after the roughing up video of Allahbadia went viral and he, along with officers, were getting shoved and pulled at some event. It is this footage which has gone viral and is bringing fundamental rights and their treatment by the police into question.” What is Occurring Here? “Some people while filming a certain clip focuses our influencer motivational speaker, Ranveer Allahbadia, and in another, he is being pulled and in frame, the police of Assam is holding onto the shoulder. If you browse through these two pictures, it is quite tough to figure how it all began. There are considerable number of people in the audience that say that it was out of the blue.” “Witnesses said ‘It is violent and not needed’ on the grounds of anonymity.”
“The man wasn’t making it difficult, but he was dealt with as though he were a serious criminal. Magedon “The footage was circulated on social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram where users expressed their disapproval of the police while using the hashtags #AssamPoliceBrutality, #JusticeForRanveer which were trending at the time. A lot of them as well as other activist users condemned the police assault of the social media They called the attack as extremely democratic influencer as quite aggressive.” “This is straight up bullying,” one netizen remarked on his tweet. “Why are we supposed to feel safe and protected under police service when they go around acting like savages?” Government Senior officials turned out to be defensive “Sources claim that the Assam Police has sought to, or at the very least, has tried to detach itself from this with no comment. While balming the authorities for doing nothing tends to be the easier option, they did choose to do this. However, they do seem to be actively investigating it.”
The video highlights the deterioration of trust an average person has towards the police officers whose responsibility is to protect his or her interest. In the opinion of lawyers, every law enforcement officer must restrain his or her behavior in a proper reasonable manner even when he or she is in the middle of an investigation. What is Coming Down The Pipeline? The collective interest of citizens has been aroused and all attention is now focused on the Assam authorities as they seek to contain the inferno. Are the officers concerned going to be dealt with? Can the citizens ever trust the police again?
