A man belonging to an Other Backward Class (OBC) community was severely beaten by a group of people in Madhya Pradesh's Guna town after he was allegedly caught stealing pesticide from a market, police said on Sunday.

The incident took place on Thursday, two days after a Dalit couple consumed pesticide and the husband was beaten up by the police while being evicted from a government land. A video of the Thursday's incident, which has gone viral on social media in Guna, purportedly showed a bleeding man being beaten and then dragged with a towel tied around his neck while he lay on the ground.