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Factory proprietor successful Ludhiana forces pistillate and her nieces to parade with blackened faces implicit theft accusation.
A mill proprietor successful Ludhiana and his aides allegedly blackened the faces of a pistillate idiosyncratic and her 3 nieces, hanged placards speechmaking ‘I americium a thief. I judge my crime’ astir their necks, and paraded them successful the area, section constabulary said connected Wednesday.
According to police, the incidental took spot successful Ekjot Nagar connected Bahadurke roadworthy successful Ludhiana connected Tuesday aft the mill proprietor suspected each the 4 victims employed astatine the mill of stealing garments.
After the video of the incidental surfaced, constabulary connected Wednesday registered an FIR against mill proprietor Parwinder Singh, manager Manpreet Singh and idiosyncratic Mohammad Kaish astatine the Basti Jodhewal constabulary station. Manpreet and Kaish were arrested, portion the mill proprietor is astatine large, they said.
The unfortunate pistillate told police, “The mill proprietor and the manager accused maine of theft and thrashed maine erstwhile I denied the allegations. The accused past brought my household members to the mill and forced america to confess the transgression we did not commit.”
Her lad alleged, “The accused thrashed and forced maine to blacken my look and past the faces of my parent and cousins. They hung placards astir their necks and paraded them into the streets shouting ‘chor-chor’ portion onlookers kept making videos.”
Basti Jodhewal SHO Inspector Jasbir Singh said that they came to cognize astir the incidental done a societal media video and initiated the probe aft registering an FIR.
The accused were booked nether sections 127 (wrongful confinement), 356 (defamation), 74 (assault oregon transgression unit to a pistillate with intent to outrage her modesty), 75 (sexual harassment), 61 (2) (criminal conspiracy), and 3 (5) (criminal enactment done by respective persons successful furtherance of communal intention) of the BNS Act, the SHO said.
“The pistillate is the paternal aunt of the 3 girls. The girls said they were 17, 18 and 19 years old. We are verifying their age. The mill proprietor is absconding portion his 2 aides were arrested,” the SHO said, adding that a hunt is connected to apprehension the mill owner.
“If the mill proprietor suspected the household of theft, helium should person approached the police. Blackening their faces and parading them with placards astir their necks is unlawful. No 1 is allowed to instrumentality the instrumentality successful their hands,” the SHO added.
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