Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan : "No one committing crimes against women will be spared on Madhya Pradesh soil".

In Madhya Pradesh’s Rewa district, a man’s house was demolished after a purported video of him assaulting his girlfriend recently surfaced on s ocial media. The accused, who worked as a driver, has been arrested from Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh, Superintendent of Police (SP) Navneet Bhasin said.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted a video of a bulldozer bringing down the house, saying, “No one committing crimes against women will be spared on Madhya Pradesh soil”. Chouhan added that the government has also cancelled the driver’s licence of the accused, identified as Pankaj Tripathi. The house was in the Dhera village of Mauganj area of the district.

According to police, Tripathi, 24, allegedly beat up his 19-year-old girlfriend after a dispute. In the video, the woman is seen asking the accused to marry her. The man initially seems to get irritated and then proceeds to kick and slap her repeatedly in the face. Pankaj was seen slapping the woman, grabbing her hair and slamming her into the ground head-first. He then kicks her in the face and all over her body. The assault happened at Rewa district.

In the assault video, the woman appears unconscious from the attack. Tripathi then tried to steady her on her feet while instructing his friend, who was recording the video, to delete the footage.

The woman was seen lying unconscious for hours on the side of the road. She was taken to a hospital by local later. The police said Tripathi allegedly got furious when she refused to marry him.

The incident is said to have occurred earlier this week on Wednesday (December 21). The victim was admitted to a hospital in a critical condition and she is undergoing treatment, according to police.

 The accused was however detained under section 151 (disturbing public peace) of the IPC and later released.