Sitapur : A footage circulating on social media showed the sons of a state minister and their gunner thrashing two women in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur.
Police have ordered probe into the incident after the incident caused outrage on social media on Saturday.
The video captured allegedly a gunner in police uniform and two others beating two women and tearing their clothes.
The women have alleged that two sons of a state minister and their gunner thrashed them.
In their complaint to the police, the women have alleged that they are being forced to vacate a piece of ancestral land at the behest of the minister.
Minister of state for urban development Rakesh Rathore has dismissed the allegations, saying that it is a deliberate attempt to tarnish his image.
He said that the driver and the women are siblings and have a land dispute which is in court.
Sitapur circle officer Sushil Singh said that all the allegations are being probed and an FIR will be registered accordingly.
IANS