A video, which went viral lately, of police officers assaulting and beating up a dalit woman and her teenage kin inside a closed room has sent chills down the spines of social media users.
The Madhya Pradesh Congress has posted the video on platform X. The video has by now created an uproar following which the state government has ordered a probe.
The video shows a woman being beaten up with a stick, dragged and kicked by a woman police officer inside the police station. The video then shows four other policemen entering the room in uniform and assaulting the teenage son of the woman, while she is made to sit on the floor and watch. The video shows two policemen holding the boy while another officer brutally beat him up with the stick.
"Chief Minister @DrMohanYadav51 ji, would you please tell us what is happening in Madhya Pradesh? Your police is bent on killing people by committing hooliganism in the name of law and order," the Congress wrote on X sharing the video.
"The cruelty of the police station in-charge and police personnel towards a 15-year-old boy and his mother from a Dalit family under Katni GRP police station area is a soul-stirring incident! The question is, where did these people get this courage from? Was it because of your indifference? Or have you given them the license to do such acts? Shameful act!!" the party said.
The video went viral and drew sharp criticism on the state government for its inaction against the perpetrators, even after ten months since the incident. Following this, the state police on Thursday line attached the police station in-charge and directed a senior official to conduct a probe into the matter.
The state police headquarters line-attached (removal from field duties) to Jabalpur the concerned police official and directed a Deputy Inspector General (DIG) level official to conduct a probe into the matter, police said.
(With inputs from PTI.)