Ghaziabad Police orders inquiry after video shows officer intimidating residents with ‘device to detect nationality’

The Ghaziabad Police ordered an enquiry connected Friday (January 2, 2026) aft a video went viral connected societal media showing a constabulary serviceman placing what appears to beryllium a smartphone connected the backmost of a antheral and allegedly intimidating residents of a slum by claiming the instrumentality could find if they are amerciable immigrants.

“Are you Bangladeshi? The instrumentality shows that you are, doesn’t it?” a constabulary serviceman could beryllium heard saying portion the antheral stressed that helium was from Araria territory successful Bihar.

The constabulary serviceman is from the Kaushambi constabulary station. The incident, occurred during what constabulary called arsenic a “routine country domination exercise”.

“An enquiry has been ordered, Assistant commissioner of constabulary (ACP) of Indirapuram ellipse is investigating the matter,” said the District constabulary successful a statement.

The constabulary said the thrust was not aimed to verify nationality but a modular information process to verify individuals successful impermanent settlements and country domination exercises were proactive information operations conducted by constabulary and equipped forces to support instrumentality and order, boost nationalist confidence, and forestall crime. “These impact aggravated patrolling (foot/vehicle), way marches, and checks successful delicate oregon high-risk areas to found authorization and guarantee a peaceful environment,” the Ghaziabad Police added.

The Opposition Congress demanded the judiciary to instrumentality suo moto cognizance connected the video and initiate enactment connected the constabulary officer. “We person nary anticipation from the authorities constabulary and administration, that they volition enactment connected specified officers assuch absorption is coming from the top. These incidents person go a regular occurrence successful Uttar Pradesh, hence the High Court should instrumentality enactment arsenic the videos not lone marque mockery of the authorities but besides a implicit usurpation of regularisation of law,” said Ajay Rai, Uttar Pradesh Congress chief.