A man was beaten up in front of his daughter by a staff member of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation at a bus station at Kattakada, on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.
The incident triggered outrage across the state after a video footage of the incident was made public. In one of the protests, agitators damaged a KSRTC bus.
The Kerala High Court suo moto sought a report on the incident.
Transport minister Antony Raju suspended four staff members, including the station master and the duty guard. The police registered a case and took the accused into custody.
The man, identified as a local resident Preman, was thrashed following an altercation over KSRTC staff insisting on more documents to renew the concession card of his daughter, who is a degree student.
In the video, the girl could be seen pleading not to assault her father. The girl alleged that she was pushed aside by the accused.
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