Kolkata: Two men, who rushed – wearing shorts – to the police station last weekend, was rejected through the police on the grounds that they were “inappropriate dressed”.
When one of the duos raised the problem in the Kolkata police twitter handle, the social media cell of the power asked if they would attend the office in such clothes.
The police have had them started the investigation after one of the men posted a problem on his Facebook wall, threatening to ask RTI’s question about whether someone needed to follow the dress code to enter the police station.
The initial reaction of the police and the complainant Facebook post attracted significant social media attention.
Barnik Dutta, a resident of a picnic park, was walking past a temple near his home in the morning last weekend, when he saw some items stolen from the structure.
He told his friend, Avishek de Biswas, and they both rushed to Kasba PS to report theft on the clothes they were wearing.
But the police at the main entrance stopped them, steep telling them that they could not enter except “dress correctly”.
If they want to file a report, they must return to wear trousers, they are told.
Stung by police reactions, the duo returned, turned into trousers and filed fir.
But this problem continues to Rankle Biswas.
On Monday, he wrote in the polls of Kolkata’s twitter handle whether there was an official clothing code to enter the police station.
That reply makes it stunned: “Will you go to your office with shorts?” Furious, Biswas posted on Facebook that he was “rejected in …
because I wear shorts and t-shirts,” added, “I will submit a RTI query …
My goal is only to create awareness about ‘citizens’ right Important services’ so there are no citizens who are rejected by any important service about reckless reasons.
“Post Biswas becomes a viral, with netizens posting more questions.
Although Kasba police refused to comment, DC (Southern Suburban Division) Rashid Munir Khan said the investigation had been ordered.
“We have asked the Assistant Commissioner to ask the incident.
We have identified a constable on the assignment of guards who have asked the men to dress properly.
The action will soon follow,” he told Ti.
Senior officers in Lalbazar clarified that there was no dress code for the complainant.
“We are an emergency service.
The right probe will be done,” said an officer.
Sociologist Proanta Roy said: “The first instinct of the police was to drive a complainant.
Maybe he saw a good reason in the shorts they were wearing.
But what really ‘dressed’ civilized ‘? …
tomorrow, if a woman, wearing a nightie , attacked, will the police not listen to it? “However, the former Police Commissioner Tushar Talukdar, felt there must be a” minimum dress code “in any government office, including the police station.