Three males together with a neighborhood chief of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) had been detained by police on Thursday after they allegedly beat up a girl and a video of the incident went viral.

In the meantime, the lady Prakash Devi mentioned that they needed to put in banner exterior her store. “I declined and instructed them to put in it some other place, so that they hit me… no girl ought to undergo this,” she added.

The girl had taken objection to native MNS staff putting in a pole for placing up an commercial in entrance of her store in Kamathipura in central Mumbai, police mentioned.

The incident had taken place on Sunday, mentioned an official.

The video purportedly confirmed Vinod Argile, a neighborhood office-bearer of the MNS, and two others slapping and pushing the middle-aged girl.

After the video circulated on social media, a First Info Report (FIR) was registered below IPC sections 323 (assault), 506 (felony intimidation) and 509 (act aspiring to outrage modesty of girl) at Nagpada police station.

Vinod Argile, Raju Argile and Satish Lad had been detained however no arrest has been made but as probe is underway, the official mentioned.