Kolkata: Police have registered a suo motu FIR to probe the recent incident of alleged moral policing in the Kolkata Metro Railway, following a mass petition in this regard.
"We have registered an FIR. We have already started taking action so that those who were involved in the incident can be identified and nabbed," DC (North) Debasis Sarkar said.
Police started the case on Friday after the petition, signed by several passengers, was forwarded by Metro Railway authorities.
According to media reports, a few people on Monday objected to a man hugging his woman friend in a Metro train coach.
An argument ensued between the two sides and the protestors heckled the couple, pushed them out of the train and beat them up at Dum Dum Metro station. Protests was held outside Tollygunge and Dum Dum Metro stations on Wednesday against the incident. There was alleged assault of some girls protesting against the moral policing by unruly Metro Railway passengers on Thursday evening near Dum Dum metro station, and a complaint was lodged with the police. Police were trying to procure CCTV footage to investigate the case of the alleged assault.
A senior officer at the Kolkata Police headquarter in Lalbazar said police was also planning to record statements of witnesses.
Earlier, a Kolkata Metro spokesperson, said: "We did not receive any complaint, and nothing could be found in the CCTV footage either. The security official present at the station did not report anything." However, many lashed out at the attackers on social media. Although a few objected to "people getting intimate in public", they were outnumbered by those speaking in support of the couple.