India, July 29 -- The Delhi Police on Monday rejected West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that a Bengali-speaking woman and her child were assaulted by personnel of the Delhi Police. DCP East Delhi Abhishek Dhania said following a detailed investigation it was found that the video shared by the chief minister on social media platform X is "fabricated and baseless".

Police said they investigated the woman shown in the video, who had alleged that "four policemen came to their house, took them away to a secluded place and demanded 25,000." During the inquiry, she admitted that her relative, a political worker based in Malda district, had asked her to make the video, which was then shared with him and subsequently circulated t...