ASHA worker who slapped cop booked along with 10 others

An ASHA worker, whose video of slapping a police officer went viral on social media, has been booked along with 10 others by the Sultan Bazar police.

The Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers have been booked under BNS Sections 126 (2), 127 (2), 221, 223 (a) and 132 r/w 3(5) for assaulting and



obstructing on-duty public servants.

On Thursday, December 9, a video of an ASHA worker – B Tirupathamma – went viral on social media after she slapped Sultan Bazar station house officer (SHO) Srinivasa Chary while being detained for demanding an increment of salary to Rs 18,000, a pre-election promise of the Congress.