Woman tied to pole, thrashed in Punjab
Chandigarh, April 6: A woman was tied to a pole and thrashed by the members of a family in Punjab’s Patiala district after her son allegedly took away their daughter-in-law by luring her, police on Sunday said. A case has been registered in connection with the matter and two persons have been arrested, they said. Punjab State Women Commission has directed the senior superintendent of police (SSP) of Patiala to submit an action-taken report by April 7 in the matter. The incident took place at Jansuha village in Patiala on April 4 and the video of the incident went viral on social media. The woman, who is in her late forties, in her complaint alleged that the family, which was living in the same locality, caught her when she was going somewhere. She alleged that she was tied to a pole, thrashed and her clothes were torn. The woman said they were asking her 18-year-old son’s whereabouts as they claimed that her son took away their daughter-in-law, who is the mother of two children. She said she kept pleading that she was not aware about her son’s whereabouts and even offered to help them in locating her son. The woman was, however, later rescued by police. (PTI)
Minor girl gang-raped in Muzaffarnagar
Muzaffarnagar, April 6: A minor girl was abducted and gangraped by two men who also filmed the sexual assault to blackmail her in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, the police said on Sunday. After the victim’s family filed a complaint in Civil Lines police station about the April 1 incident, investigators have launched a manhunt for the accused, Abaz and Rizwan. They have been booked under penal provisions for gang-rape, abduction and under relevant sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. Later, the girl was taken to a hospital for a medical checkup, police said. A police officer said the gang-rape took place in a hotel after the two abducted her in a car from Company Bagh on Meerut Road. The complaint submitted by the girl’s brother said that she and her mother had gone shopping where they got separated due to congestion. After separating from her mother, the girl was standing on the road when the two accused forcibly pulled her into the vehicle and drove her to a hotel and gang-raped her. (IANS)
Police complaint against ‘illegal loudspeakers’
New Delhi, April 6: Former MP and BJP leader Kirit Somaiya has filed a police complaint over alleged use of unauthorised loudspeakers at 72 mosques in Mankhurd Govandi suburb in eastern Mumbai, an official said on Sunday. The BJP leader filed the complaint on Saturday during a visit to the area under the Shivajinagar Police Station, Govandi, and cited an RTI reply which showed that 72 mosques were using loudspeakers without police permission. He said: “I have lodged a complaint at the police station. Unauthorised loudspeakers have been installed on 72 mosques in Govandi, which are without police approval. I have demanded immediate action from the officials on this.” (IANS)