A doctor belonging to Scheduled Tribe community has alleged that he was beaten up by relatives of two patients in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur. The police said that the relatives wanted the patients to be treated by an "upper caste" person.

Garha Police Station in-charge S Khan said Dr Geetesh Ratre has complained that the incident took place on Friday when two women injured in an accident were brought to the government-run Subhash Chandra Medical College here around 7:30pm.