Dehradhun: The Uttarakhand Police on Sunday charged an MLA of the Bharatiya Janata Party with criminal intimidation and voluntarily causing hurt, after a video purportedly showed him beating up and hurling casteist abuses at two Dalit women.

On Friday, two families approached Thukral to sort out a dispute – a 16-year-old girl from one family and a 17-year-old boy from the other had eloped. Thukral, who represents the Rudrapur constituency in the Assembly, is believed to have lost his cool after the two sides got into a scuffle at the meeting at his house.

A video of the incident was widely shared on social media.

    In a video that has gone viral, #Uttarakhand #BJP MLA from Rudrapur seat, Rajkumar Thukral, can be spotted abusing & beating up Dalit women @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/COzwiCmNGg

    — Kavita (@Cavieta) March 11, 2018

Uttarakhand BJP President Ajay Bhatt told ANI that the party had served Thukral a notice because of the incident.

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Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Dec 23: A woman sustained burn injuries after an overhead live wire snapped and fell on her in the district headquarters town of Kalaburagi on Monday.

The woman has been admitted to a private hospital with injuries to her hands, legs and stomach.

According to police, the electric wire fell on the school bus carrying intellectually disabled children and then landed on the woman.

The incident comes close on the heels of a 14-year-old boy dying of electrocution in the town on December 13.

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