Hyderabad, Sept. 19 -- A Telangana police home guard was arrested and dismissed from service on Saturday after a video allegedly showing him assaulting a woman and dragging her by her hair outside Hyderabad's Hafeezpet Railway Station went viral on social media.

The home guard, Anand, who was deployed at Hafeezpet railway station on deputation to the railway police, would be produced before the local court for judicial remand, Cyberabad police commissioner M Ramesh said.

"There is no question of tolerating such inhuman behaviour by the police towards women. We shall take stringent action against the accused home guard," Ramesh said.

The Miyapur police registered a case against Anand under Sections 74 (use of criminal force against a wo...