<p>On a day when the Indian Air Force conducted flypasts across the country to honour health workers and others, including the police, who were battling the coronavirus, a video, showing brutal torture of a mentally challenged youth by two Uttar Pradesh cops, went viral on the social media. This left the UP government red faced.</p>.<p>The video shows the two cops kicking the youth, identified as Sunil Yadav, a resident of Bibamau village in UP's Etawah district, about 250 kilometres from Lucknow, in the face and also crushing his face under their boots.</p>.<p>One of the cops was later suspended and a probe was ordered into the incident, a senior police official, who termed the torture as 'light force', said on Sunday.</p>.<p>According to reports, the cops had gone to the village upon receiving a complaint that Sunil had assaulted some residents. The cops claimed that, when confronted, Sunil, who they said was a ''drug addict'', attacked them with knife.</p>.<p>''We had to use light force to neutralise the threat,'' the official said quoting the two cops. The video, however, tells a different story.</p>.<p>The mentally challenged youth could be seen begging for mercy as the cops kicked him, crushed his face with their boots and beat him with a lathi.</p>.<p>In another incident, the cops in the same district ordered a mentally challenged youth, who was found to be violating the lockdown, to treat them with a dance performance on a popular desi number. A police outpost in-charge was suspended in this regard.</p>
<p>On a day when the Indian Air Force conducted flypasts across the country to honour health workers and others, including the police, who were battling the coronavirus, a video, showing brutal torture of a mentally challenged youth by two Uttar Pradesh cops, went viral on the social media. This left the UP government red faced.</p>.<p>The video shows the two cops kicking the youth, identified as Sunil Yadav, a resident of Bibamau village in UP's Etawah district, about 250 kilometres from Lucknow, in the face and also crushing his face under their boots.</p>.<p>One of the cops was later suspended and a probe was ordered into the incident, a senior police official, who termed the torture as 'light force', said on Sunday.</p>.<p>According to reports, the cops had gone to the village upon receiving a complaint that Sunil had assaulted some residents. The cops claimed that, when confronted, Sunil, who they said was a ''drug addict'', attacked them with knife.</p>.<p>''We had to use light force to neutralise the threat,'' the official said quoting the two cops. The video, however, tells a different story.</p>.<p>The mentally challenged youth could be seen begging for mercy as the cops kicked him, crushed his face with their boots and beat him with a lathi.</p>.<p>In another incident, the cops in the same district ordered a mentally challenged youth, who was found to be violating the lockdown, to treat them with a dance performance on a popular desi number. A police outpost in-charge was suspended in this regard.</p>
