‘Massive Tense in Meerut’: UP cop said, after officer’s communal bombast at CAA protest
New Delhi | Mahaenews | Web Desk
According to Police official, The situation in UP’s Meerut was very tense, after a video showing an officer of the force using communal language in the sensitive town went viral,
The additional director general of police (Meerut Zone), Prashant Kumar siad, a video showing superintendent of police (city), Akhilesh Narayan Singh, telling a group of Muslims to go to Pakistan was widely circulated on social media on Friday.
Additional director general of police (Meerut Zone), Prashant Kumar, said. “We were pelted with stones and anti-nationals slogans were being shouted despite our appeals,” “Better words could have been chosen if the situation was normal. But the situation wasn’t normal and cops showed a lot of patience and restraint,” Kumar added.
The video seemed to have been shot inside a narrow lane where locals had clashed with police and shouted slogans during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests that turned violent in Meerut on December 20.
