The city police has ordered an inquiry into an incident in which some young people were seen in a video clip doing sit-ups in a public place here in the presence of police.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) has been asked to inquire into the incident, which has been described as an act of moral policing, and submit a report, a police official said.
A police inspector in Hyderabad has chosen to implement his own brand of moral policing, punishing couples he allegedly caught in a public park by making them do sit-ups in public.
The incident reportedly happened last week in a park near the historic 7 Tombs monument under the Golconda police station limits. Half a dozen couples were punished by the police which made them do sit-ups, while a man in uniform kept count.
The whole episode was video-graphed and put up by a Web-based news magazine as part of a report that praised Inspector Nayeemuddin Javed as a conscientious police officer upholding Islamic values.
—PTI