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Ambedkar Nagar : A video showing UP policemen beating women with lathis and hurling abuses at them has sparked allegations of police excesses. The police have denied the allegations and said that they had to use “minor force” after the women pelted stones at them and their vehicles. Now viral on the social media, the video is from Jalalpur in Ambedkar Nagar district. The police action was against women protesting over the vandalism of a statue of B.R. Ambedkar in the area recently. The protests set off a dispute over the land...