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“A 25-year-old man from the Scheduled Castes (SC) community was allegedly assaulted and forced to drink urine in Madhya Pradesh‘s Bhind district, leading to the arrest of three individuals,” police said.
“Prima facie, the main accused targeted the man after he quit working as his driver,” an official said on Tuesday (October 21, 2025), adding that the victim was undergoing treatment in a hospital and further investigation was under way.
“According to the complainant, three persons abducted him from Gwalior on Monday (October 20, 2025) and brought him to Bhind in a vehicle, where he was beaten up and forced to drink urine,” Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Pathak said. The victim is a resident of Akutpura village in the Surpura police station area of Bhind.
Speaking to reporters, the victim claimed that he was abducted from his in-laws’ home in Deendayal Nagar area of Gwalior and taken to Bhind in an SUV. He was beaten up with a plastic pipe, he alleged, adding that the three persons stopped the vehicle midway and forced him to drink urine from a bottle.
“The victim was taken to Akutpura village, where he was tied with an iron chain and was forced to drink urine again,” he charged. An official said the victim used to drive a four-wheeler for the main accused, Sonu Barua, a resident of Datawali village. The victim stopped driving recently, which prompted Barua to target him. “The victim is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital,” Mr. Pathak said.
“A case has been registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and relevant Sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for kidnapping, assault, and inhuman treatment,” Mr. Pathak said. “The three arrested accused have been identified as Sonu Barua, Alok Sharma, and Chhotu Ojha,” the official added.
The latest incident comes days after a SC community youth opposing illegal mining was allegedly beaten up and urinated upon by four persons in Katni district.
Earlier in May, the police said a group of persons allegedly kidnapped a relative from Guna district following a dispute and took him to Rajasthan, where they forced him to drink urine and paraded him in a woman’s clothes.
In March this year, a man was allegedly beaten up, forced to drink urine, and wear a garland of shoes after he eloped with a married woman in Ujjain district. A viral video in July 2023 had triggered national outrage after it captured a man urinating on a tribal in Sidhi district.
Published – October 22, 2025 11:54 am IST
