Guna incident worse than Una flogging of dalits: Guj MLA

Recent incident of a dalit couple consuming a pesticide and being assaulted by police here in Mhya Presh is more horrific than 2016 flogging of dalits at Una in Gujarat, MLA Jignesh Mevani said on Saturday.

independent MLA from Gujarat has demanded registration of criminal cases against police personnel involved in July 14 incident.

" Guna incident is more frightening than Una incident in Gujarat. A five-month-old child of victim couple was also pushed during incident. What can be more inhuman than this?" Mevani told reporters here.

He said if guilty police personnel are t booked, Shivraj Singh Chouhan government will face a backlash during upcoming Assembly bypolls.

A Dalit couple allegedly consumed a pesticide while a drive was underway to evict m from a government land on Tuesday.

A video of incident showed some police personnel purportedly beating up husband with batons, prompting a huge outr.

Mevani alleged atrocities on dalits have been on rise since BJP came to power in state.

" attitude of Shivraj Singh Chouhan government is anti-dalit and anti-farmer," he alleged.

Mevani, MP Scheduled Castes Commission member Preep Ahirwar and state Congress secretary Kiran Ahirwar visited spot of incident and also visited couple in hospital.

Ahirwar said dalits are scared in wake of incident.

He demanded compensated for victims--Rajkumar Ahirwar (38) and his wife Savitri Ahirwar (35).

state government h transferred Inspector General (Gwalior range), Guna collector and superintendent of police following incident while six police personnel were suspended.