Homeless harassed Indore video goes viral MP CM takes action

    Indore/Bhopal, Jan 29 (PTI) Madhya Pradesh Chief
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday suspended an Indore
Municipal Corporation official after videos of homeless people
being driven out of the city and dropped near a village in
biting cold went viral on social media.
    IMC Deputy Commissioner Pratap Solanki was placed
under suspension and attached to the Urban Development
Directorate in Bhopal, while two civic staff were dismissed
from service, officials said.
    In the video, the IMC's anti-encroachment squad can be
seen transporting people, many of them weak and old with just
rags and torn bags as possession, in a truck and dropping them
near Shipra village outside Indore city.
    In the video, after villagers protested, the IMC staff
can be seen taking the people back to the city.
    IMC additional commissioner Abhay Rajangaonkar said
the people were to be shifted to government run refuge centres
to protect them from the cold, and said an inquiry was
underway to find out why they were left outside the city. PTI
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