The Madhya Pradesh government has suspended a municipal deputy commissioner and sacked two civic employees in Indore after a video showed elderly street dwellers being dumped on a highway on the city’s outskirts.

Indore has been ranked India’s cleanest city for four years straight, and has a reputation for not letting garbage or street dwellers be visible.

The video, shot by a man named Rajesh Joshi, shows municipal workers offloading from a truck elderly men and women, bent and wrinkled, on a roadside with their meagre belongings. After protests by local people, the Indore Municipal Corporation staff are seen hauling the homeless people back into the truck.

Following a public outcry, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tweeted on Friday: “Inhuman treatment towards the elderly will not be tolerated at any cost.”

The elders have now been moved to a shelter for the homeless.