Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 6 (IANS): The Kerala SC/ST Commission on Wednesday took a tough stand against a woman civil police officer attached to the pink patrol unit who publicly shamed a father and his 8-year-old daughter for stealing her mobile phone, which later was recovered from the official vehicle of the police, in which the lady police officer was travelling.

The father of the girl, Jayachandran had first approached the Kerala Police but failed to get the desired punishment, when following the issue becoming news, the erring lady police officer was transferred, but later it was known, that she got a posting nearer to her home.

Upset with this, the parents staged a day long protest in front of the State Secretariat last month.

He later approached the State SC/ST Commission seeking justice and they took up the case and recommended that the erring lady police official should not be given any policing jobs wearing her uniform and also wanted a detailed probe into it.

The incident occurred on August 27 when 38-year-old Jayachandran and his 8-year-old daughter came to the main road in the capital city outskirts near Attingal to see the movement of a huge trailer, carrying equipment, to the ISRO unit, here.

After a while Rejitha, the woman police official finding her mobile was missing from the car suddenly accused Jayachandran who was standing near the police patrol vehicle of stealing her phone and pointed out that he had passed the mobile to his eight-year-old daughter.

Soon she started to publicly humiliate the father and the daughter and threatened to take both of them to the nearby police station and this was witnessed by the crowd that started to gather.

But soon Rejitha herself found out the mobile phone in the vehicle and when all this was going on, an onlooker was taking the video of all what was happening.

Soon this was shared on the social media and it became viral and the media took this issue up.