A video of Delhi Police Station House Officer (SHO) of Sarita Vihar in Delhi South-East district went viral on social media. In the video, the SHO Ajab Singh along with two other police personnel is seeing punching and beating a man with baston.

The man has been identified as Mohammad Ibrahim (44) who is also a dhaba owner in Jasola and a resident of Jaitpur. The incident occurred last month on March 14 at around 11 pm.

"After closing my restaurant on March 14, I along with my worker was cleaning dishes in front of his shop when the SHO arrived with two other police personnel and started beating me. First he slapped and punched me and then started beating me with sticks," said Ibrahim.

"Thankfully the entire incident was captured in the CCTV camera installed near the dhaba otherwise I would have not been able to prove myself," said Ibrahim.

"This is not the first time this incident had happened. The SHO takes bribe from shopkeepers in the area and who ever refuse to give money SHO misbehaves with that person. We had on February 5 given a written complaint against the SHO for asking bribe," said Kishan Bhigudi, who is the shop owner and had given it to Ibrahim on rent.

An internal enquiry has been initiated against the three police personnel including the the SHO.  However, according to a senior police official, police have received several complaints from locals regarding Ibrahim's dhaba operating till late night.

"Police had several times told him to shut his shop on time after several complaints regarding the shop was received. On 14 March, police had also nabbed three persons under section 40 of the Delhi Excise Act near his shop" said the senior police official. 

After the recent demolition drive by the DDA, Krishan, who claimed to be the owner of the shop, had constructed the shop on DDA land.

Krishna claimed that

the land belongs to him whereas the land is of DDA and he had got constructed illegal shops on it and has given them on rent, said the senior police official.