Chandigarh: A video on social media website went viral of an elderly rickshaw-puller being thrashed by policemen. The incident occurred at the railway station in Jalandhar city. His only fault was that he reached the platform on the rickshaw to drop a passenger, who as per the social media was physically challenged.

"Often police harasses the poor and helpless!" Akali Dal MLA Manjinder S. Sirsa took to social media platform and tweeted on Thursday. He also added that the old rickshaw puller at the Jalandhar railway station came there to drop a handicapped person.