Chhatarpur:

A case has been registered against four persons for allegedly assaulting a tribal man with belts in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district, police said on Wednesday.

Purported videos of the brutality have also surfaced on social media.

Chhatarpur’s Additional Superintendent of Police Vikram Singh said a resident of Tapariyan village was on Tuesday beaten by four acquaintances over past enmity.

The accused have been booked under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 296 (obscene act) and 115 (2) (causing hurt to any person) besides the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, more common as SC/ST Act.

Vikram Singh said the accused will be arrested soon.

Meanwhile, some purported clips of the incident surfaced on social media in which a man is being hit with belts. The assaulters also tell him to remove his clothes. Later, the persons remove his pants and unbutton his shirt, show the purported clips.

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Indore:

Authorities in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city have sent a group of 22 people including 11 children who begged in the city back to their native place in Rajasthan.

The group stayed in a hotel here, said an official of the Women and Child Development Department on Wednesday.

“There were 11 children and as many women. They begged at different places in the city throughout the day and return to the hotel at night,” he said.

They were counselled before being sent back to their home state, the official added.

The operators of all hotels, lodges and other shelters in the city have been warned not to accommodate people involved in begging or they will face legal action, he said.

The Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has started a pilot project to make ten cities in the country beggar-free. Indore is one of these cities and the local administration has banned begging in the city.

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