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New Delhi: The senior policeman who was seen in a video slapping a woman protester who was standing by the side of a road has been removed from duty at the protest site, Indian Express has reported.

Many have questioned how such a move can be considered punitive at all.

Additional DCP (North East District) Sandeep Lamba was identified as the policeman slapping a woman near Jantar Mantar. The incident can be assumed to have taken place at the time when protesters were moving towards the parliament and gathering at central Delhi in large numbers in answer to the Cockroach Janata Party’s call to march there,........

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