Ludhiana: While the Ludhiana police administration is applauding volunteers associated with them for working as a supporting pillar amid pandemic, some of the videos showing them indulging in acts of indiscipline and arrogance seem to convey otherwise.
Some Tik-Tok videos made by a traffic marshal are catching attention in social media. In these videos certain marshals are seen using sticks to threaten migrants to move fast in the queue inside Guru Nanak Dev Stadium while using the lyrics of a racist song, lie in the lap of each other on the background music of ‘kaali rifle donali’ and also making a man do sit-ups on the song ‘jehra dhake chad gya yaaran de, Punjab police sardaran de’.
In one recent video on his Tik-Tok account shows that the migrants are walking in a queue in the stadium and two volunteers are guiding them. One of the volunteers is holding a stick. He picks up the stick to hit one migrant, who was walking slow. The background music of this video is ‘bade chete aaunde ne, jattan nu bhaiye, modhe te kahi ae, mod te lage si vad de pathe, chakki jan fatte, UP nu nathhe’.
Another video captured on song ‘kaali rafal (rifle) donali’ shows a group of marshals seen lying on lap of each other even without mask. In another video again same marshals are seen sitting in a group, sans mask, showing swag on song ‘karlo dawai da koi hal Modi ji, mombatiya nal rog kithe taal hunde aa’. (Modi ji, get some medicine invented, lighting candles won’t avert pandemic).
Yet another video, which has also been shot in Guru Nanak Dev Stadium, shows some traffic marshals sitting together in a group posing for a song, again without masks.
In fifth video, two marshals are making a man do sit-ups with background song ‘Jehra dhakke chad gya yaaran de, Punjab police sardarran de’. Fourth and fifth video seems to be old and in these videos marshals are wearing old uniform.
Meanwhile, DCP (traffic) Sukhpal Singh Brar said, “Earlier, also we have removed some volunteers as they were indisciplined. I am unaware of these videos, but will get these inquired into. Such indiscipline will not be tolerated:”