On May 24, at 1 pm, a video began circulating on social media. It showed a young boy in a blue shirt being brutally manhandled by a #BBMP staffer for allegedly not agreeing to get tested for #Covid at a BBMP testing booth in South #Bengaluru’s Nagarathpet.

Local residents told this reporter that the booth had been set up in the area a week ago and wondered whether the BBMP officials were trying to meet a "quota" of Covid tests per day. Naveen*, an eyewitness to the assault, told Newslaundry: “When I took out my phone to record the incident, the official snatched my phone and threatened to break it. Then he dragged me towards an ambulance and said, ‘If you don’t stop, I will push you inside this ambulance and make sure you test positive.’”

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Read the full report: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/05/24/pushed-and-dragged-me-too-eyewitness-on-how-bbmp-officials-thrashed-boy-for-refusing-covid-test

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