The Lahore police on Thursday allegedly made a young boy and his sister do sit-ups in front of a police vehicle after they failed to provide their national identity cards to the police.

Speaking to ARY News, the girl said that she was coming back with her brother on a motorcycle from a factory where they both work when police officials stopped them at a check post near Ghalib Market police station and asked them to show their CNICs.

“The police officials forced us to perform sit-ups as we did not have the CNICs,”  she said, adding that the policemen were recording a video while they were doing sit-ups.

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Her brother said, “After inflicting corporal punishment to us in public, the police officials took us to the Ghalib Market police station where they subjected us to torture.”

The boy alleged that his sister was physically searched by the male police officer at the police station.

Meanwhile police officials have denied all allegations saying that the video shared on social media is fake and is aimed to “malign” the police.

Further reports reveal that the Ghalib Market police station house officer (SHO) has said that “someone conspired to defame the police [in response to] an operation against the hotel mafia”.

“No official from Ghalib Market police station was involved” in the incident, the SHO said, claiming that the “footage of the boy and girl was made on purpose near the police van”.

The cop added that an investigation is underway and authorities would soon “reveal the facts”.