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The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom on Monday took suo-motu discover of the incident. (Consultant Picture: Shutterstock)
The 55-year-old girl was assaulted and paraded semi-naked in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district allegedly by her son’s in-laws after he eloped with a girl and married her in opposition to the needs of her household
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom on Monday took suo-motu discover of an incident by which a girl was allegedly assaulted and paraded semi-naked by her son’s in-laws in Tarn Taran and stated it reminded of the “chirharan of Draupadi’ on the behest of the Kauravas in Mahabharat.
The 55-year-old girl was assaulted and paraded semi-naked in Punjab’s Tarn Taran district allegedly by her son’s in-laws after he eloped with a girl and married her in opposition to the needs of her household.
The incident occurred in a village on March 31, just a few days after the sufferer’s son eloped with the girl and married her, police had stated. Justice Sanjay Vashisth took suo-motu (by itself) cognisance of the “barbaric and shameful incident” by means of media studies and determined to deal with the matter as public curiosity litigation.
Justice Vashisth can be the executive decide of the Tarn Taran periods division.
The matter was subsequently positioned earlier than a division bench of Appearing Chief Justice G S Sandhawalia and Justice Lapita Banerji, which issued a discover of movement to the Punjab authorities.
“I’m reminded of the historic occasion that had taken place in the course of the Mahabharat period, that’s, the chirharan of Draupadi on the behest of the Kauravas and the silence of the Pandavas, together with Bhishma Pitamah, which in the end resulted within the bloodshed of 1000’s of individuals within the Mahabharat warfare.
“After centuries thereafter, an strange frequent man doesn’t anticipate even at this time that the ‘nyay pranali’ (judicial system) can be a mute spectator to such incidents, occurring sinfully and brazenly beneath the nostril of the administration,” Justice Vashisth noticed.
“Being the executive decide of the Tarn Taran periods division, I’m of the thought-about opinion that cognisance of this incident is required to be taken suo-motu on the judicial facet as a result of the excessive court docket can’t be a mute spectator to such incidents, the place the respect and modesty of a woman is outraged brazenly, and regardless of taking required steps, police and the opposite authorities involved present or undertake a lacklustre angle and don’t provoke immediate motion,” the decide stated.
Police had stated 4 individuals had been arrested in reference to the incident.
In accordance with the grievance filed by the sufferer, she was alone at residence when her son’s in-laws allegedly assaulted her and tore her garments off. They paraded her within the village in a semi-naked situation, the sufferer alleged.
A video purported displaying the sufferer being paraded within the village surfaced on social media on Friday. Kulwinder Kaur Mani, the mom of the sufferer’s daughter-in-law, her brothers Sharanjit Singh Shanni and Gurcharan Singh, and household pal Sunny Singh have been arrested in reference to the incident.
Primarily based on the grievance, an FIR was registered on April 3 beneath Indian Penal Code sections 354 (assault or legal drive to girl with intent to outrage her modesty), 354B (assault or use of legal drive to girl with intent to disrobe), 354D (stalking), 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm) and 149 (illegal meeting).
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