An angry mob rioted and attacked police officers after a teenage schoolgirl was allegedly raped in a hospital's intensive care unit.
Baton-wielding officers tried to control hundreds of protestors gathered outside the Jagriti Hospital in the city of Kanpur in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state.
But the crowd turned on the police officers, throwing stones and charging back at their lines, in violent scenes caught on camera by eyewitnesses.
One police officer was kicked and punched unconscious after he found himself isolated and surrounded by demonstrators.
Violence broke out after news spread that a student named Akansha, believed to be 17 or 18 years old, had been raped in the hospital's intensive care unit.