[4][5] The following day, Colonel Firdosh P. Dubash of the 2nd Arunachal Scouts Battalion (2 ASB) informed West Kameng district Superintendent of Police Raja Bhantia that the beating and humiliation of his soldiers had angered his troops.
Rakesh Srivastava, president of the Indian Civil & Administrative Service (Central) Association, wrote to the defence secretary urging disciplinary measures for the officers and men of the army unit.
[4] After his meeting with Dubash, Raja Bhantia contacted local and national media and the IPS Association in New Delhi.
An official defense communique disputed the accusations leveled against the officers and men of the unit, concluding that the incident was an "outcome of highhandedness displayed by the Arunachal police coupled with the lax attitude of the civil administration".
[1] The beatings in police custody were seen as "vindictiveness", and the responses by the IPS and IAS associations were viewed as "attempts to both normalise and internalize this illegal action".
[2] According to former Chief of Army Staff Ved Malik, "While I accept that what apparently happened after that was wrong, I would have done the same as what the commanding officer did.
"[10] The government's approach to the fallout from the 2–3 November events was low-key, intending to diffuse the issue without addressing its cause.
[12][13] The Ministry of Defence faulted "police and Indian Army jawans" for the standoff in Bomdila, and is studying "how a brawl at a local level escalated into a major civil-military tussle".