Elderly woman, grandson thrashed by railway cops in station in Madhya Pradesh

At least six personnel of the Madhya Pradesh’s Government Railway PolicePolicePolice (GRP) were suspended on Thursday (August 29, 2024) for allegedly beating up a woman and her teen grandson inside the railway police station in Katni district as shown in a 2023 video clip on the internet.

According to officials, the suspended personnel include a woman police station in-charge, a head constable, three constables, and a woman constable. They were identified Aruna Vahane along with head constable Ajay Srivastava and four constables Varsha Dubey, Omkar Sirsam, Soheb Abbasi, and Salman Khan.

Superintendent of Police (GRP, Jabalpur) Simala Prasad told The Hindu that the incident took place in October, 2023, when the family members of one Deepak Vanshkar, 35, — his mother Kusum Bai, 60, and his son Deepraj Vanshkar, 15, residents of Jharra Tikuriya — were summoned to the GRP station to know about Deepak’s whereabouts.