Video of youth’s thrashing: Two nabbed, hunt on to arrest others together with native BJP man, say UP Police

By PTI

SHAHJAHANPUR: Two individuals have been arrested and hunt is on to nab 4 others, together with a neighborhood BJP member, after a video of a youth being thrashed by them surfaced on social media, police mentioned right here on Saturday.

Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Kumar mentioned a video through which a youth is seen being thrashed with a stick has come to “our notice”.

“The victim Rajiv Bhardwaj is a resident of the Shahjahanpur city area. A case has been registered on his complaint against six persons including Kapil and Prateek Tiwari at Sadar Bazar police station,” Kumar mentioned.

Prateek Tiwari is a member of the native BJP unit in Shahjahanpur.

Two accused Shantanu and Sonu Gupta have been arrested and hunt is on to nab the remaining accused who’re absconding, the officer mentioned.

The incident occurred on Wednesday and the video went viral on Friday, police mentioned.

Hitting out on the ruling BJP over the incident, Samajwadi Party has demanded strict motion towards the accused.

“BJP goons committing atrocities with stick of power in their hands depict the picture of BJP government’s jungle raj…,” a tweet from the official Twitter deal with of the SP reads.