Videos displaying three males beating up a person and a transgender particular person in separate incidents surfaced on social media following which a case was registered in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district on Wednesday, police stated. The incidents had occurred within the district on August 23 and police are looking for the culprits, an official stated.

Assailants within the two movies have been the identical – A person sporting a saffron scarf, recognized as “Arun Kumar”, and two others who are unidentified. One video showed a transgender person pleading with them that she did not spit on anybody’s vehicle, and Kumar slapping and kicking her.

The other video showed him and his associates hitting a man with shoes while asking for money and saying will you go against me while living in this city.

Hoshangabad Dehat police station in-charge Anup Singh Nain said the two victims were traced after the videos went viral. Based on their complaints, a First Information Report was registered against Kumar and two others under IPC sections 327 (voluntarily causing hurt for extortion), 294 (obscene act in public place) and 506 (criminal intimidation), the official said.

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