Five booked for harassing woman
The Udaipur police booked five members of a family, including three women, on Sunday for pushing a woman to attempt suicide after the family spit on her face and attempted to undress her in public on October 11.
Police said family of the woman approached them after she attempted to kill herself. “A woman living on Kalka Mata Road of the city tried to end her life after she found out that videos of her mistreatment by a neighbour’s family were circulating on social media,” said Chenaram, the station house officer (SHO) of Ambamata police station.
Udaipur superintendent of police Kunwar Rashtradeep asked the SHO to register a case against the accused family and conduct a thorough investigation. “We have registered a case of unlawful assembly, assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty, extortion, defamation and criminal intimidation against Kishan Lal Chauhan (60), his wife, Meera (55), daughters Dipika (32) and Jyoti (22), and son Kuldeep (25) on the basis of complaint given by the woman,” the SHO added.
According to the preliminary inquiry, the woman’s husband lent Rs 2.5 lakh to his neighbour, Kuldeep Singh Chauhan, in 2015. Chauhan did not repay the loan for a long time and two families often had arguments over this.
Later, the woman’s husband took the matter to the community leaders, who summoned the Chauhan family. The Chauhans allegedly lifted the woman’s veil before the community leaders and spat on her face before trying to disrobe her. The onlookers, instead of intervening and rescuing the woman, recorded the harassment on their mobile phones.
Later, when the videos began circulating on social media, the woman got into depression and tried to end her life, the family said, though there’s no mention of this in the FIR.
The case against the Chauhans is under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 384 (extortion), 388 (extortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life), 500 (punishment for defamation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
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