Bengaluru Police Commissioner Kamal Pant has assured citizens of their privacy following reports of patrolling police personnel stopping people at random and checking their mobile phones.
Strict action will be taken against those police personnel who do this, he said on Twitter. “@BlrCityPolice doesn’t approve of taking over the mobile phone of anyone under any pretext. We strongly disapprove of any such act,” he tweeted.
In the event of such an incident occurring, citizens can submit the location and time of the incident, the three-digit Hoysala number and vehicle number. Mr. Pant was responding to media reports and queries from the public during an interactive session on Twitter on Saturday.
