New Delhi, April 4 (IANS): Five police personnel including four women officers, were on Saturday suspended for beating up two women accused of theft by their employer, police said.

Sub-Inspector Rajbir Singh, of the South Rohini police station, picked up the women from their house and took them to the police station. There, he along with four women constables - Sarita, Mamta, Lakshmi and Shagun - beat them up in a bid to make them confess to the crime, police said.

The victims, both in their mid-20s, worked in a computer centre in sector 3 of Rohini in north Delhi. Their employer had accused them of stealing golden ornaments from his house recently and filed a case against them.

The women made a call to the PCR van and approached senior police officers on Saturday morning after being let off from the police station, following which action was taken against the police personnel responsible.

The women were sent for medical examination at Bhimrao Ambedkar Hospital.