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Four men person been booked successful Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh for allegedly publically humiliating a antheral by forcing him to lavation the feet of a Brahmin antheral and portion the h2o implicit sharing an “offensive AI-generated image” of the latter, officers said connected Sunday (October 12, 2025).
According to the police, the incidental took spot connected the evening of October 10 connected the premises of a temple successful Satariya colony nether Patera constabulary presumption limits, wherever Purushottam Kushwaha was forced to lavation the feet of Anuj Pandey “to apologise for sharing an AI-edited representation of him wearing a footwear garland”.
Damoh Superintendent of Police, Shrut Kirti Somvanshi told The Hindu that Mr. Pandey and 3 of his relatives person been booked nether Sections 296, 196(1) (b) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and a probe has been launched.
A video of the alleged incidental has besides appeared connected societal media showing Mr. Kushwaha, surrounded by locals who were instructing him to execute the enactment and apologise, washing a man’s feet.
As per the archetypal accusation study (FIR), Mr. Kushwaha and Mr. Pandey had been progressive successful an statement connected October 6, aft the second opposed a determination by locals to prohibit the merchantability and depletion of liquor successful the village.
After the argument, Mr. Kushwaha shared the “objectionable” representation connected societal media owed to which the locals gathered successful the temple and forced him to apologise to Mr. Pandey and the Brahmin community, the complainant has alleged successful the FIR. A punishment of ₹5,100 was besides imposed connected Mr. Kushwaha.
The Opposition Congress has slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) implicit the incident, terming it “a disgrace to humanity”.
“Purushottam Kushwaha was threatened and forced to state that helium would worship Brahmins for the remainder of his life. This incidental is simply a disgrace to humanity. It is against the country’s Constitution. The Constitution grants adjacent presumption to each national of the country. Such incidents happening with Dalits and Backward Classes are a blot connected the full state and society,” the Congress said connected X, portion asking the BJP authorities to instrumentality strict enactment successful the substance and acceptable an example.
“The BJP authorities should instrumentality the strictest imaginable enactment against the criminals progressive successful this incident, truthful that a wide connection goes retired that determination is nary spot for specified incidents successful society. This state volition beryllium governed by Babasaheb’s Constitution, not by the Manuvaad favored by RSS-BJP,” it added.
