An elderly Dalit couple in Madhya Pradesh’s Ashok Nagar district has been allegedly beaten up and made to wear garlands of shoes, police said on Sunday. The incident occurred after the couple’s son was allegedly involved in an eve-teasing.
A case has been registered against 10 persons who were at large in connection with the incident of thrashing the couple, news agency PTI reported. The incident took place on Friday in Kilora village under Mungaoli police station limits.
It has been learnt that the couple’s son had been allegedly involved in eve-teasing the wife of one of the accused. Following the incident, the Dalit family left the village, Mungaoli police station in-charge Gabbar Singh Gurjar was quoted as saying by PTI.
The couple came to the village recently, Gurjar added.
The accused on Friday allegedly tied the 65-year-old man Dalit man and his wife aged 60 to a pole, beat them up and made them wear garlands of shoes.
A case has been registered in the matter after the victim woman lodged a complaint. A case has been registered in the case against 10 persons under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly with common objective), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 294 (obscene act) and 506 (criminal intimidation) as well as provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
All the accused were absconding and efforts were on to trace them, the police added.
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