The Meghalaya government Saturday suspended police traininginstructor Pradip Borah after he made two constable recruits drink the urine offellow trainees, police said.
Borah is posted with the 2nd Meghalaya Police Battalion inGoeragre in West Garo Hills, around 300 km from here.
The incident occurred after the duo fought with a fellowrecruit during lunch at a community kitchen.
"The delinquent inspector of 2nd Meghalaya policebattalion has been placed under suspension based on findings of preliminaryfindings," Meghalaya director general of police N. Ramachandran told IANS.
Earlier, Home Minister H.D.R. Lyngdoh said strong actionwill be taken against the accused, if found guilty.
"This kind of inhuman punishment is not allowed to betaken by anyone, whether in the police force or anywhere," Lyngdoh toldIANS.
He said the battalion commandant is conducting an inquiry toascertain the exact cause of the incident. "If the instructor is foundguilty, we would surely take stern action against him," the home ministersaid.
Borah asked three recruits to urinate in bottles and forcedthe two recruits to drink it in the presence of 600 constables during the nightroll call, a police official said.
Taking suo moto action, Meghalaya Police authorities havereplaced Borah and sought an explanation from him regarding the incident.
"This sort of punishment is unacceptable. He could havepunished them with an extra drill," N. Rajamarthandan, commandant of 2ndMeghalaya Police battalion, said.