After a horrific video gone viral of a woman being beaten with iron rods by a few shopkeepers after her refusal to move from an area, four people were arrested.
The incident occurred at the main bus stand in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar on August 12.
The said video show the woman sitting on the ground near a shop when she is dragged by a man and surrounded by at least a dozen others. Even as a man is heard saying “don’t hit her”, another assaults her and kicks her face. Another man then hits the screaming woman with an iron rod.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Sagar, Lokesh Sinha, said the video went viral on Thursday afternoon and they tried to get information about the woman, but could not find out anything. “We took note of the incident and an FIR was registered. Some arrests have been made. We will take the victim’s version when we can locate her. From our questioning so far, we have found that these people owned shops in the area. They asked her to go away and assaulted her when she did not,” he said.