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Chhatarpur: A Dalit youth was stripped and thrashed severely in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur city following which police have arrested three persons, a senior official said on Wednesday.
No reason has been specified for the incident which, according to sources, took place three-four days back.
In a clip that surfaced on social media on Wednesday, two men were seen stripping the man, who was bleeding in the head, and hitting him with belts and butts of country-made pistols while another person was recording his video.
The accused could be heard abusing and telling the man to call his relative in the police force. Later, the accused made him run away naked.
The man was going home at night when he was intercepted and taken away by the accused under the Kotwali police station limits, Chhatarpur’s Superintendent of Police Agam Jain told reporters.
Taking cognisance of the video, immediate action was taken and the three accused – Deva alias Devendra Thakur, Lucky Ghoshi and Annu Ghoshi – were arrested and the pistols seen in the clip were seized from them, the official said.
This story was originally published in ndtv.com. Read the full story here.