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BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh minister Narendra Shivaji Patel’s son Abhigyan Patel, 30, was booked within the early hours of Sunday for allegedly thrashing in public 4 individuals – together with a hotelier couple, one among their staff and a journalist – in a outstanding locality right here. The accused allegedly attacked the victims but once more inside a police station once they went to file a grievance.Nevertheless, 4 policemen, together with two officers, have been suspended on Abhigyan’s allegation that he was manhandled by cops.The suspension adopted quickly after Patel, a first-time minister, visited the police station with a big group of supporters previous midnight.Requested for the explanation for the suspension, Bhopal police commissioner Harinarayan Chari Mishra advised TOI that the cops confronted prices of “beating the accused with a belt”. In her grievance towards Abhigyan, Alisha Saxena, who runs a restaurant along with her husband Dennis Martin, stated the couple was standing exterior their restaurant round 8pm when a gaggle of women and men arrived in a white SUV and began beating a biker – an area journalist recognized as Vivek Singh – on the street.When Alisha intervened and requested why they have been beating him, two males allegedly hurled abuses at her and hit her on the pinnacle with an iron rod. Her husband was allegedly crushed too. Staffer Sitaram, who tried to avoid wasting his employers, was additionally thrashed.Alisha alleged that one of many attackers boasted that he was “Abhigyan, a minister’s son”, and dared his victims to “do whatever they can”.Subsequently, the 4 victims went to Shahpura police station to file a grievance. The victims alleged that once they have been being despatched for medical examination by cops, Abhigyan and his aides arrived and attacked them once more. Policemen intervened and tried to revive peace.An FIR towards Abhigyan and others was registered beneath IPC sections 324 (voluntarily inflicting damage with harmful weapons), 294 (obscene music or phrases), 506 (legal intimidation) and 34 (widespread intention).Abhigyan, nevertheless, alleged that police manhandled him and his pals. A counter-FIR was registered by a youth, Prashant, stated to be related to Abhigyan, beneath IPC sections 323 (voluntarily inflicting damage), 294, 506 and 34. On Sunday, Congress state president Jitu Patwari met the 4 victims. Condemning the violence, he stated: “The behaviour of the power-drunk minister’s son with innocent people proves that anarchy rules the state.”Patwari alleged that Patel’s son pressured police to not take motion.On cam: Goons thrash Dalit youth in MP’s Betul

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