The police in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district of India have been caught on camera throwing the corpse of an accident victim in a canal. The video was recorded by a passer-by and it shows the cops pushing a package into the canal with their batons. Action has been taken against the officers after the video went viral.
While admitting the lapse, a senior officer of the local police said only the body parts which could not be salvaged, were thrown into the canal.
The senior officer said: “It was a very bad accident and all the body parts could not be retrieved. This is why the police had disposed of them in the canal.
“The parts that could be salvaged were sent for postmortem… The man is yet to be identified.”
He added that the body has now been taken out of the canal and has been kept in the morgue.
Rakesh Kumar, a Senior Superintendent of Police in Muzaffarpur, said: “This incident is shocking and we have suspended the driver constable and terminated the contract of two Home Guard jawans on duty.”
