2 held for beating up SC youth in Sonepat

Sonepat, June 25

The Gannaur police, led by DSP Sandeep Malik, yesterday arrested two — Mohit and Jitender — of Bajan Kalan allegedly for beating up a Scheduled caste youth — Ankit — around a month ago.

The police said the accused were today produced in a local court which remanded them in one-day police custody.

The accused, who belonged to an upper caste, had allegedly beaten up Ankit for declining to clean their buffaloes and not taking their phone calls. Yesterday, the accused allegedly spread the video of the incident through the social media following which, a case under various sections of the IPC and the SC/ST Act were registered on the complaint of victim’s father Rishi Pal.

Additional Superintendent of Police Arpit Jain formed three teams to nab the accused from their suspected hideouts.

In another case, three youths — Ajai, Ankit, Deepak — and two minors of Shamri village were arrested yesterday on the charge of kidnapping one Tushar, a Scheduled Caste youth, from a residential colony on June 20 at knifepoint. The accused allegedly thrashed the victim with sticks and abused him. They also uploaded the video of the incident on the social media. A case in this regard was registered at the Sadar police station in Gohana. A local court remanded the accused in judicial custody. — OC