Intoxicated DIG beaten up in a restaurantNepalnews.com, 14-Mar-10
A Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) was beaten up severely at a restaurant in Thamel over a minor dispute when he was heavily intoxicated with alcohol late night Friday, Kantipur reported.
The beaten up DIG is Parshuram Khatri of the investigation department in the Police Headquarters.
Khatri had gone to Gambesi Dohori Sanjh, Thamel without his body guard. He had gone with his friends Deepak Khadka and Ashok Bhandari.
Khatri and his friends have sustained serious injuries. After the fight, he came out of the restaurant blood oozing out from his head at about 1 am, Saturday. He was immediately rushed to Bir Hospital where doctors treated him with ten stitches on his head. He went back to his home at around 3 am.
Khatri said, he was attacked over a brawl about a bag that he had given to the security guard of the restaurant to keep for a while.
They attacked over a dispute on hiding the bag, he said. I think they attacked me with firewood sticks.
Police from Durbarmarg reached the restaurant after somebody informed the Police Control about the incident by calling at the number 100.
“Some body informed us about the incident by calling the Police Control number 100, and we reached the place based on that,” said Inspector Sudip Raj Pathak of Durbarmarg. “Later we found one of the injured was a DIG of the Police.”
They have arrested security guard of the restaurant Kumar Shrestha, Chef Som Majhi and proprietor Arjun Sherchan.
The restaurant owner claimed, the incident took place as the heavily intoxicated DIG started attacking the restaurant staff.
Police Headquarters has taken the issue seriously. “It is inappropriate for a police officer of DIG rank to stay at a public place without his security guard till late night and drink heavily,” said an Additional Inspector General (AIG). “The Police Headquarters is serious on this and there will be a probe.”
