KURNOOL: A video of a street fight that brought shame to Kurnool police went viral on social media on Saturday.
The fight took place at Raj Vihar Centre here a couple of days ago but it came to light only after the video was posted on the social media. The video captured the scene of two constables bashing up a homeguard on traffic duty. Learning about the incident, Kurnool Superintendent of Police A Ravi Krishna kept under suspension the two constables.
In a statement, the SP said that the two constables - K Mani Kumar and K Manoj Kumar - beat up home guard S Mohammed Hussain on duty in broad daylight. The two policemen who are brothers, stopped their motorcycle at the traffic signal but did not move even when the signal turned green as the one who was driving was speaking on mobile phone.
When they continued to stay even as other vehicles kept moving, the home guard approached them and asked them to move. Enraged over this, the police brothers on motor bike got down and pushed him backwards and hit him repeatedly.
It was only after passersby intervened, they calmed down and left the place but their “heroism” was recorded by the CCTV camera. The video later went viral, alerting the police.
According to sources, the two brothers who got into police force in 2013 had rowdy sheets opened against them and it beats one as to how they cleared antecedents check before they were taken into the force.