Overview

• A video from the scene shows one policeman holding the student while another strikes him with a stick.
• The death occurred in the early hours of Friday in Bhopal, with friends saying the student ran into an alley after spotting police during a late-night outing.
• Friends reported finding him with a torn shirt and visible bruises and alleged the policemen demanded Rs 10,000 when asked to stop the assault.
• He was taken to a hospital by friends and was declared dead by doctors.
• DCP Vivek Singh said constables Santosh Bamaniya and Saurabh Arya have been suspended and that a City Superintendent of Police–level probe is underway pending the post-mortem findings.