Vijayapura rural police arrested seven individuals, together with the gram panchayat president, on costs of tonsuring, assaulting and parading two youths by garlanding slippers in Hegadihala village, officers mentioned on Saturday.
In line with the police, the dual brothers allegedly tried to rape a lady of their neighborhood whereas working in Maharashtra final week. Nevertheless, police mentioned no rape costs have been registered in opposition to the brothers for the reason that girl has not filed a grievance.
The brothers and the girl belong to the Lambani scheduled caste neighborhood and are staying at Hegadihala village beneath Vijayapura rural police station limits.
The folks of the neighborhood go to neighbouring Maharashtra for employment as migrant labourers and are available again to their village, police.
After coming back from Maharashtra, the girl complained to her dad and mom and elders of Tanda (colony) concerning the incident. Gram panchayat president Ram Singh Lamani convened a panchayat and ordered to tonsure each the brothers and paraded them by garlanding slippers on February 10, police mentioned.
The video went viral on social media, and the youths complained to the police concerning the desecration by neighborhood elders.
The Vijayapura rural police arrested Lamani, villagers Anil Lamani, Mangesh, Hemu, Raju, Channu and Ramesh on Saturday.
“Quickly after receiving the grievance, we’ve arrested all of the seven accused, together with the prime accused gram panchayat president and registered an FIR in opposition to all of them beneath varied sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” Vijayapura rural sub inspector Girish Uppar mentioned.
The accused have been booked beneath sections 143 (illegal meeting), 147 (rioting), 149 (illegal meeting for a standard trigger), 323 (inflicting harm), 355 (assaulting), 504 (intentional insult), and 506 (threatening with life) of the IPC.
All of the accused had been produced earlier than the Vijayapura JMFC court docket, which remanded them to judicial custody for 14 days, police mentioned.
“As all of the accused belong to the identical neighborhood, the SC/ST atrocity Act doesn’t apply to the case,” Uppar mentioned.