The Jammu and Kashmir government on Tuesday relieved the station house officer of the Kralkhud police station of his charge and transferred him to the police lines after he stripped and paraded a female colleague on the streets of Srinagar.
An official of the police station told rediff.com that SHO Ghulam Nabi allegedly caught the woman cop in a 'compromising position' with four men inside an abandoned house in Srinagar.
Witnesses said the SHO thrashed the woman and later paraded her naked while taking her to the police station.
"If they were trying to teach the cop a lesson, the Kralkhud police stretched this punishment too far. Even if the accused was nabbed in a compromising position, is there some law in this land or not?" asked a senior lawyer.
Police have registered a case against the cops involved and the Srinagar district police chief is inquiring into the incident.
On Tuesday, the victim was handed over to her parents while the four persons who were arrested along with her are under detention at the Kralkhud police station.