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A 30-year-old antheral has been arrested successful Madhya Pradesh’s Morena territory for allegedly assaulting and humiliating a 20-year-old Dalit antheral aft 2 videos of the seven-month-old incidental went viral connected societal media, constabulary officers said connected Tuesday (February 3, 2026).
According to the police, the accused, identified arsenic Dharmendra Singh Tomar, a nonmigratory of Ambah successful Morena district, was arrested connected Tuesday aft the videos came to light.
Morena Superintendent of Police Sameer Sourabh told The Hindu that the accused and the unfortunate were portion of the aforesaid ellipse and utilized to walk clip together.
“They utilized to portion unneurotic and the incidental had taken spot successful a drunken state. It was recorded by a 3rd person who shared the videos connected societal media aft helium had a fallout with the accused,” Mr. Sourabh said.
In 1 of the videos, the accused is seen forcing the unfortunate to squat and asking him erstwhile helium would instrumentality the money. In the different video, the accused is seen making the unfortunate execute an obscene enactment and and slapping him.
Mr. Sourabh said determination was a little monetary space progressive successful the matter.
“Although it’s not important to the discourse and the unfortunate has besides denied that the monetary transaction was the crushed for assault. He was besides not consenting to record a ailment erstwhile the constabulary reached retired to him and helium had besides not informed his household astir the incident,” the SP said, adding that the constabulary lodged a lawsuit aft taking cognisance of the videos and the accused was apprehended wrong 2 hours.
Ambah Sub-Divisional Police Officer Ravi Singh Bhadoriya said that an FIR had been registered nether Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita Section 296 and Section 3(1)(e) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act astatine Ambah constabulary station.
Mr. Bhadoriya said the unfortunate utilized to unrecorded arsenic a tenant successful Mr. Tomar’s lane but shifted houses aft the incident.
