TWO PERSONS, including a police constable, were booked in connection with the alleged torture of a teenaged youth – a minor belonging to another community – at a police station in Rajkot, officers said on Monday.

The action comes two days after a video surfaced on social media purportedly showing a man sitting on a chair, holding a youth by his hair, and pulling out handfuls of it and throwing it in a dustbin, laughing as the youth pleads with him to stop. The man was later identified as a sanitation worker, police said. The video was allegedly filmed at a police station in Rajkot by a constable posted there, police said.

The two have been booked under BNS sections 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 198 (willfully disobeying a law to cause injury) and 54 (abettor present), as well as sec

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