By PTI
BHADOHI: Two persons, including a carpet exporter, have been booked here for allegedly beating a Dalit worker and threatening to kill him, police said on Friday.
The FIR was registered at Aurai police station against Anurag Baranwal, the carpet exporter, and an unidentified person under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Thursday, they said.
Baranwal got carpet finishing and packing work worth Rs 7,80,000 done by the complainant, Om Prakash Gautam (34), and his 20 labourers in his export firm from May to August.
Initially, Baranwal paid them Rs 2,14,485, Superintendent of Police (SP) Meenakshi Katyayan said, citing the FIR.
On August 30, Baranwal called Gautam to his office to pay the outstanding amount of Rs 5,65,515.
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