WOMAN AMONG FOUR HELD FOR ASSAULTING, STRIPPING AND PARADING WOMAN IN TARN TARAN

April 6, 2024 - PatialaPolitics

WOMAN AMONG FOUR HELD FOR ASSAULTING, STRIPPING AND PARADING WOMAN IN TARN TARAN

The Tarn Taran Police has arrested four persons including a woman for assaulting and parading a woman in a semi-naked condition in the street of village Voltoha, said Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tarn Taran Ashwani Kapur here on Saturday.

 

Those arrested have been identified as Kulwinder Kaur, Gurcharan Singh and Sharanjit Singh alias Sunny, all residents of Jivan Nagar in Valtoha and Sunny of village Abadi Amarkot Amirke in Tarn Taran.

 

The incident took place on the evening of March 31, around a month after the victim’s son eloped with a woman and married her against her family’s wishes.

 

SSP Ashwani Kapur said that the victim was alone at her home Kulwinder Kaur (mother of an eloped girl) along with Gurcharan, Sharanjit, Sunny and one unknown person came to her house to avenge the marriage and following heated arguments, they that started assaulting her and also tore off her clothes. The video of a purported incident, wherein a woman was seen paraded, was also made viral by the accused persons, he added.

 

He said that further investigations are on and the remaining accused will be arrested soon.

 

A case FIR no 20 dated 3/4/2024 had already been registered under sections 354, 354-B, 354-D, 323 and 149 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Police Station Valtoha in Tarn Taran. Later, Police have also added sections 67 and 67-A of the IT Act in the FIR.