Police Beat Up Tennis Players

Well this will be short and sweet. Mostly because the Times of India didn’t embellish and partly because my threads of focus are nearly broken. But I’m still writing about it because it’s a freakishly bizarre incident.

Three top-ranked tennis players in the city of Varanasi in India were beat up by the police for “tripling on a motorcycle” and then thrown in the slammer. Now me, being a dumb American, took that to be there were three people on a motorcycle at one time. Since I’m assuming I’m right, a beating and a lock-up seem a little extreme for “flouting traffic norms”.

I mean – maybe just a punch or two to the face but a severe beat-down? That’s taking it too far.

Comments

By Erica

Thanks for the comment – it’s always hard to tell what is really going on since we only hear what the papers tell us. I like to speculate though :)

By Biplob Kishore Deb

I agree with you. Police can not beat people only for breaching the traffic rules. There are laws and I have no idea if there is any low in India whereby police can beat people only for riding on a motorcycle. Well, it is also true that nothing is still proven regarding this incident and I am not yet sure if those players had not done any other crime. However, I think, state government should investigate about the incident in order to find out the truth behind it.
Thanks for pointing out the issue.