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JE News Desk: Pravesh Shukla, the man who was caught on camera urinating on a tribal labourer, was taken into custody, the police said on Wednesday. The development came after a video of a man urinating on a tribal labourer in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district went viral on social media on Tuesday which prompted Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to take cognizance of the matter.

Anjulata Patle, the Additional Superintendent of Police of Sidhi, Anjulata Patle said that the accused is being interrogation and further legal action will be taken soon.

"We have taken the accused (Pravesh Shukla) into custody. He is under interrogation. Further legal action in the matter will be taken soon," Patle said, as quoted by ANI.

The incident took place in Kubri village in the district and the viral video shows the accused allegedly in an inebriated state urinating on the face of the man.

Soon video of the incident went viral, CM Chouhan instructed the administration to take strict action against the accused and to impose stringent National Security Act (NSA) against him.

"A viral video of Sidhi district has come to my notice…I have instructed the administration to arrest the culprit and take strict action and also impose NSA," CM Chouhan wrote on Twitter.

Following the instruction of the chief minister, the case has been registered against the accused at Bahari police station in the district under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 294, 504, section 3(1) (r)(s) of SC/ST Act and NSA has also been imposed on him, the police said.

The victim has been identified as Dasmat Ravat (36), a resident of Karaundi village in the district.

Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra also reacted to the matter and said that this is a very condemnable incident. "Strict action will be taken against the accused," Mishra said.


(With ANI Inputs)