Sureshbhai Patel who was left partially paralysed in Alabama last week.
The government has asked the United States to urgently investigate reports that the police in Alabama attacked an Indian grandfather and left him partially paralysed.
"We expressed concern at what appears from media reports as the excessive use of force by police," Indian foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin said to news agency AFP after meeting with a senior US diplomat. "We have requested expeditious investigations and sharing of investigations and that action (be) taken," he added.
Police in northern Alabama stopped Sureshbhai Patel and threw him to the ground last week after they received a call about a suspicious person walking up driveways and peeking into garages, local website al.com reported.
"He went out for a stroll and in the meantime, some neighbour alerted the police. The police asked him to stop and then they attacked him. He was bleeding," said Mr Patel's distraught wife, Shakuntala Patel, in Pij in Gujarat.
The 57-year-old was visiting his son, Chirag Patel, an engineer living in Alabama, and was out on a morning stroll when the incident occurred, according to the report on al.com, which also said the attack left Patel bleeding from the face, paralysed and in need of surgery.
He had indicated to police he did not speak English and repeated his son's house number while pointing towards it, the younger Patel told al.com.
The officers then "put him to the ground" after he allegedly put his hands in his pockets during frisking, the son said.