NAGPUR, Maharashtra — The district collector and the Superintendent of Police of Guna district in Madhya Pradesh were removed from their positions late night on Wednesday after a Dalit couple attempted suicide by pesticides when the police removed them from a land they had cultivated and destroyed their crops. The videos and photographs of police assaulting the couple and their relatives, and images of their children sobbing as the parents fell unconscious went viral on social media, sparking outrage. In a series of tweets, former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath condemned the incident and said, “ Where is this Shivraj Singh government taking us? Look at the way a Dalit farmer couple has been attacked inhumanly by the policemen. Will the Shivraj government show the same alacrity over the thousands of acres of land grabbed by so-called people’s servants and prominent people?

Source: Huffington Post July 16, 2020 04:41 UTC