Probe ordered after SI, personnel thrash youth for ‘err’

Hyderabad: A youngster was brutally beaten up by a Sub-Inspector (SI) during Durga idol procession after he threw gulaal (colour powder) over him.
According to reports, few youngsters were playing with gulaal by throwing it on each other and some of it fell on the SI of Atmakur Police Station in Yadigiri district, TNIE reports .
Furious over this, the SI and his colleagues, who were posted at the village for bandobust unleashed violence on the youngsters.
The police not only thrashed the youths but also abused and allegedly dragged one of the youth’s mother through the ground, when she tried to rescue her son.
The Rachakonda commissioner of police (CP) has ordered an inquiry into the incident Atmakur SI K Yadagiri, few constables and other armed personnel were supervising the bandobust said the youths were in an inebriated state, started abusing and throwing gulaal on the police personnel when the officers asked them to speed up so as to make way for another procession coming on the same route.