A doctor and an attendant were allegedly beaten up by a drunk police constable at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on July 1, police said.

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The Constable had visited the district hospital to get himself examined and a doctor there asked him to go to a flu clinic instead, the Kotwali police station in- charge said.

The policeman, however, returned after a short while and started verbally abusing Dr Amit Patidar and proceeded to beat him up, the official said. When an attendant came to the doctor's rescue, he too was assaulted, he said. Based on the doctor's complaint, the Madhav Nagar area's city superintendent of police (CSP)  investigated the matter.

While no one sustained serious injuries in the incident, it was found that the constable was in an inebriated state and his MLC (medico-legal case) was done, he said, adding that the matter was being probed.