CCTV obtained by the ABC shows two Victoria Police Protective Services Officers allegedly assaulting a man at a Melbourne train station after he refused to let them search his bag without a reason.

Moustafa Sayegh said he was approached by two PSOs at Jacana Station at Glenroy, in Melbourne’s north-west, last June.

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He said they asked him where he was going and requested to search his bag, but he declined when they did not provide a reason.

“They have no right to… why go through the embarrassment of having people walking past and see you being treated like a criminal?” he told the ABC.

Mr Sayegh said the officers then became aggressive and one lunged at him when he tried to record the encounter on his phone.

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The vision shows the officer leap towards him, then a scuffle, as both officers hold him against a railing.

“The PSO on my left was punching me in the ribs and elbowing me to the side of the head,” he said.

“I was quite terrified, because they’d become so aggressive and out of control.”

Victoria Police declined to be interviewed about Mr Sayegh’s allegations, but in a statement said Mr Sayegh had not lodged a complaint.

ABC News also obtained a recording of the officers calling for back up, in which Mr Sayegh can be heard calling for help.

“I’m being assaulted, I’m being assaulted by two police,” he shouts in the recording.

“I had pain in my ribs, I had pain in the side of my head at that point I was thinking there’s only one thing further for them to do and that’s for them to start using their weapons against me,” Mr Sayegh told the ABC.

One officer can then be heard saying, “he’s still resisting (arrest), get the handcuffs here”.

Mr Sayegh said when one of the officers dislocated his thumb he lashed out and kicked the officer.

He has been charged with assaulting a PSO.