In a horrific incident, a 55-year-old woman was assaulted and paraded inappropriately in Tarn Taran’s Valtoha village, reportedly, by her son’s in-laws after he eloped with a girl against the wishes of the bride and her parents.
The purported video of the incident which surfaced on X shows the woman, barely dressed running away from the camera. It seems that the accused tried to record the woman, who after being stripped, ran in narrow alleyways to hide herself.
Soon after the video of the incident went viral on social media, Tarn Taran police, in a post on X, revealed details about the incident and how the incident unfolded.
As per reports, the incident occurred on March 31, a few days after the victim's son eloped with a woman and married her against her family's wishes.
According to the complaint filed by the victim, she was alone at her home when her son's in-laws allegedly assaulted her and tore off her clothes. They paraded her in the village in a semi-naked condition, the victim alleged.
Five people have been booked in the case and three of them have been identified as Kulwinder Kaur Mani, Sharanjit Singh Shanni and Gurcharan Singh, police said.
SSP Tarn Taran Ashwani Kapoor while talking to the media on Saturday said, "... The victim woman's son fell in love with a girl and married her in court. The girl's family was against this marriage and the girl's mother, with her two sons and two other men, went to the boy's house there they got involved in a heated argument and the two parties got into a scuffle, during which the boy's mother's clothes tore. The main accused, Gursharan, the girl's brother filmed a video of the woman... They waited for a few days before filing a complaint hoping to reconcile things at home. But as soon as the FIR was filed, the accused made the video go viral on social media... Police teams were formed and one of the teams found success when they for information that the accused was at the Amritsar bus stand and trying to flee the state. He was arrested there..."
Based on the complaint, an FIR was registered on April 3 under the Indian Penal Code sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354B (assault or use of criminal force to woman with intent to disrobe), 354D (stalking), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 149 (unlawful assembly). Three accused in the case have been arrested, police said.
