ASI booked for thrashing restaurant manager

New Delhi: A Delhi Police assistant sub-inspector, who was suspended last week, has been booked for allegedly thrashing a restaurant manager for not attending his calls, officials said on Tuesday. The case against assistant sub-inspector Mukesh was registered on Monday.

Mukesh allegedly thrashed the manager of a restaurant at the Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station, Shivam Thukral, on November 21, the police said.

The allegations made by the complainant required to be thoroughly investigated and based on the findings, a criminal case was registered on Monday against the policeman involved in the incident, a senior police officer said. An inspector-rank officer of a different police station will probe the case and an investigation has been initiated, he said, adding that strict

action will be taken against any policeman found indulging in such actions. In a video purportedly circulated by Thukral, he alleged that ASI Mukesh asked him to come to the police station after he could not answer his calls.