This 2-minute news item from Times Now TV, an India-wide cable news channel (23 January 2007), reports from Ferozabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh.

Two teenage boys, Amit and Shyam, were made to take their trousers down by police. They were then tied to a tree and beaten on the seat of their underpants with a big split or double stick, described by the reporter as a baton.

The officer responsible, Jagmohan Tripathi, when confronted later by journalists, denied all knowledge of it, despite the fact that he had been caught on film administering the illegal punishment.

The youths had been accused of kidnapping, but apparently the charges had not been brought to court.

Judicial CP was abolished in India in the 1950s.

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