PTI, NEW DELHI: Two persons have been arrested in connection with the incident of a Delhi policeman's son allegedly brutally thrashing a woman, a video of which has gone viral, police said Saturday. 

The accused were identified as Ali Hasan (24) and Rajesh (30), they said. 

Police said Hasan is the owner of a call centre at Hastsal road, where the viral video was allegedly shot and the other accused, Rajesh, works as a peon at the same call centre.

The main accused, Rohit Tomar, 21, was arrested Friday after Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh tweeted that the video has come to his notice and he has directed Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik to take necessary action in the matter.

The cases against the main accused - one of criminal intimidation and molestation and the other of rape - were registered based on the version of two women, police said.

The first case was registered on Thursday at the Tilak Nagar police station in West Delhi.

 following a complaint by Tomar's woman friend.

 alleging that he showed her a video in which he could be seen thrashing a woman, Deputy Commission of Police (DCP West) Monika Bhardwaj had said.

 

Tomar allegedly threatened her with the same kind of treatment if she did not follow his instructions.

The second case was registered at the Uttam Nagar police station after another woman, who was seen in the video, approached the police on Friday alleging that on September 2, Tomar had called her to his friend's office in Uttam Nagar and raped her.