During the COVID-19 pandemic in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, a woman was reportedly beaten up and pulled down a road by some police officers for not wearing a mask while going out to buy vegetables.
A police official said the woman allegedly hit a female cop first after a video of the incident, which occurred on Monday in Rahli city, went viral.
Police stopped the woman and her daughter at 11 a.m. on Monday because they were not wearing masks.
The police tried to take them away in a jeep to an open jail as punishment, but the duo resisted and allegedly hit a policewoman.
In the video, some police personnel, including a female cop, were seen beating up the woman, pushing her down, and dragging her by her hair. The police tried to take them away in a jeep to an open jail as punishment, but the duo resisted and allegedly hit a policewoman.
They were trying to shift her in the police jeep while she was resisting it and in the process, they thrashed her.
However, Rahli’s sub-divisional officer of police Kamal Singh said the “video showed only half of the incident”.
“The woman hit a female cop first and the latter had bruises on her face of an injury caused by nails,” he said.
Another incident of cruelty in Madhya Pradesh had also taken place on April 6, when a man in Indore was severely beaten up by two policemen for not wearing his mask properly.
On the other hand, Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday reported 5,412 COVID-19 cases and 70 deaths, taking its tally to 7,42,718 and toll to 7,139. In May so far, Madhya Pradesh has added 1,79,391 cases and seen 1,523 deaths.
