Though the UP police is known for their insensitiveness, in a fresh incident their callousness has claimed two lives. The incident happened in the western UP district of Saharanpur, when the police constables refused to take the injured to hospital. Two teenagers, Arpit and Sunny, met with the accident and were lying in a pool of blood as policemen continued to stand around.
According to locals, Arpit Khurana and Sunny Gupta, both 17 years old, were going back to their homes on late Thursday night, when their bike collided an electric pole and both fell into a canal near Mangalnagar Chowk and started bleeding heavily.
Locals immediately called ‘Dial 100’, the emergency service of the police. Once at the spot, the cops refused to take the victims to hospital as the blood of the victims would soil their new vehicle. The cops instead told the locals to hire a tempo and take the victims to the hospitals.
People kept on requesting cops but they did not budge an inch. After the cops left the spot, injured were taken to the district hospital by a tempo, where they died after sometime. More than 45 minutes of critical time was wasted in the whole police drama.
People present at the spot recorded the incident on video and once the video went viral on social media, top cops of the district came under pressure to take action against the accused policemen.
According to SP Prabal Pratap Singh, the incident is very serious in nature and the cops who were deployed on ‘Dial 100’, Indrapal Singh, Pankaj Kumar and Manoj Kumar, have been suspended for their insensitive behaviour. Singh said it is the first and foremost duty of the police to take such injured to the hospital and the cops cannot refuse to take them for medical treatment under any circumstances.
