Hyderabad, Oct. 15 -- The Madhya Pradesh High Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the public humiliation incident that took place in Damoh's Sataria village, where an Other Backward Class (OBC) man was forced to wash the feet of a Brahmin man and told to drink that water.

The court called it an act of "deep caste discrimination and a serious assault on human dignity."

A division bench of Chief Justice Atul Shridharan and Justice Pradeep Mittal asked the Damoh police and district administration to take action under the National Security Act (NSA) against all individuals present in the viral video.

On October 10, a man named Purushottam Kushwaha was ordered to wash Anuj Pandey's feet to apologise for sharing an "objectionable" AI-edit...