Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Shalabh Mani Tripathi had shared the video on Twitter which shows cops mercilessly thrashing a group of men with the caption "return gift for rioters".
Within days after a BJP legislator termed the police action on rioters as a ''return gift'' for their violent protests, another saffron party MP on Tuesday said that stone-pelting on Fridays would be responded to with bulldozers on Saturdays. ''UP mein agar shukravar ko patthar chalega to shanivar ko bulldozer bhi zaroor chalega,'' (If stone-pelting takes place in UP on
The police in Saharanpur, where the incident took place, say they have no information about the video. No one has complained and there is no investigation, they said.
According to reports, the video was shot two days ago in a police station in Saharanpur, where protests and clashes erupted after Friday prayers over the controversial remarks against Prophet Muhammad by two former BJP spokespersons.