Overview
- A domestic cook, Vipendra Singh Tomar, filed a complaint accusing the Singh family of verbal abuse, confiscating his phone, wrongful confinement and physical assault after he began work at their Bhopal home.
- The Ratibad Police registered an FIR naming Shashank Singh, his retired-IPS father Shailesh Singh and the family driver under BNS provisions for obscene language, voluntarily causing hurt and joint criminal liability, and opened an investigation.
- The FIR, registered Monday, follows Tomar’s account that the dispute escalated on June 28 when he asked for his phone back and was allegedly beaten and forced to leave the house.
- Police have seized the worker’s mobile phone, recorded statements and completed a medical examination that reportedly found visible injuries, and officials say further action will depend on the forensic and medical findings.
- Shashank and his family deny the abuse allegations and say the worker posed as a cook and had taken private photos and videos inside the home; no arrests have been reported and the probe remains active.