Bengaluru, Jan. 8 -- The state police have denied allegations of police misconduct after a purported clip of a woman's arrest in Hubbali on January 5 shared widely on social media depicted the woman in a partially unclothed state inside a police vehicle.

The woman is reportedly associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

According to the Hubballi Dharwad police commissioner, N Shashikumar, the arrest followed multiple complaints connected to clashes during voter family mapping in Chalukya Nagar, where government officials and police personnel were allegedly attacked. Three cases were registered in connection with those incidents, and the woman was named as a key accused in one of them.

Shashikumar claimed that the police had anticipate...