Uttar Pradesh police have arrested two men on the charge of beating a tribal youth and urinating on hisear and face, days after a similar atrocity in Madhya Pradesh.

The police are looking for the person who filmed the alleged incident on his phone and posted it on social media on Thursday.

“He will be booked under the Information Technology Act for showing the obscene video,” superintendent of police Yashvir Singh told reporters on Friday.

He said the alleged atrocity took place on Tuesday at Ghatihata village in the eastern district of Sonbhadra.

“We have arrested Jawahir Patel and one of his friends under the SC/ST Act and several sections of the penal code,” Singh said, not revealing the name of the second accused.

He said the accused and the tribal man knew each other and all three were drunk at the time.

The alleged victim, a Kol, told reporters he remembered having a fight with the accused but not much after that.

“I was drunk and don’t remember what happened to me. I saw the video on Thursday. The police approached me after watching the video and I got a case registered,” he said.

The accused, sent to 14 days’ judicial custody on Friday, are from the Other Backward Classes. The alleged victim and the accused are agricultural workers.

Last week, the state police arrested a part-time electricity department worker in Sonbhadra for allegedly forcing a Dalit youth to lick sputum off his footwear.

Earlier this month, a man was arrested at Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh — a BJP-ruled state like Uttar Pradesh — for allegedly urinating on a Dalit man. The state government later bulldozed a part of the house of the accused.