Madhya Pradesh cops' suicide prevention funda: Strip inmates
India Today
A photo of a journalist and a few other men stripped to their underwear at a MadHya Pradesh police station went viral. the cops have now issued a clarification, saying that the inmates had been stripped so that they don't commit suicide.
After facing massive backlash over a photo of a journalist and a few activists locked up and stripped to their underwear at a Madhya Pradesh police station, the SHO tried to explain that this was for the “inmates’ safety”. He said that the lock-up inmates were stripped of their clothes so that they don’t commit suicide.
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"We keep them in jail in this way so that they cannot commit suicide using their clothes," SHO Manoj Soni told ANI.
Photos of the journalist and seven others sitting in the lock-up in their underwear have now gone viral. The Police station in charge of Kotwali Sidhi and a sub-inspector have been suspended and attached to the police lines.
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They were taken into custody for staging an “unauthorised protest” against the arrest of Neeraj Kunder, the director of Indravati Drama School on April 2. Kunder was arrested for allegedly posting defamatory content using a fake identity against a local BJP MLA and his son.
According to Soni, the protesters were released on April 3.
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