INDORE:
Four women
were
arrested
for allegedly beating up, stripping and parading a 30-year-old
woman
over a dispute at a village in Madhya Pradesh's
Indore
district on Wednesday. A video of the purported incident that occurred during the
Holi celebrations
also surfaced on social media.
"On Monday, four women forcibly pulled the victim out of her house, beat her up and humiliated her by stripping her naked in public at
Bachhora village
of Gautampura police station area," Superintendent of Police (Rural) Sunil Mehta said.
All four accused women were later arrested, he said.
The victim, belonging to the Scheduled Caste (SC) category, was left traumatized and sought refuge at her parents' home. One of the accused suspected that the victim was instigating her mother-in-law against her. She also suspected that the victim had taken her mother-in-law to Mandsaur without informing her, the police official said.
Eyewitnesses said the accused women dragged the victim out of her house and
stripped
her. They said that the victim woman kept pleading for mercy at the time of the incident, but the accused did not relent and they openly stripped her by tearing her clothes. They also took her to some distance on the common road of the village in the same condition.
SP Mehta assured that those who filmed the incident will also face legal consequences. A police officer said that a case has been registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 354-A (sexual harassment) and 452 (wrongfully restraining and
assaulting
).
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