Image for representation. In a bizarre incident, six persons were arrested for stripping and parading a woman naked for having an extra-marital love relationship in Paschim Chengmar village in Alipurduar district on Tuesday. Five other persons were absconding and search is on for them, police said. It has been alleged that the woman left her husband and went away with another man but came back to her husband on Thursday after six months. The woman, after the incident left for her parental home and police had no clue about the whole incident. Police learnt about it on Sunday when a video of the incident was widely circulated on social media. Upon her return to the village, she was cornered by villagers, a police officer said.
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NCW takes suo moto cognizance of the West Bengal incident
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In a key development, the National Commission of Women on Tuesday took cognizance of the incident where a woman was beaten, made to strip and parade in the Alipurduar district of West Bengal. Chairperson of the commission Rekha Sharma wrote to the police department probing the case, pulled them up for not taking action, and directed them to arrest the accused immediately. NCW in the letter to the police wrote,"The national commission for women has yet again come across a media report captioned 'West Bengal: Woman in Alipurduar paraded naked, beaten up; three arrested' wherein it has been stated that a woman was paraded naked and brutally beaten up. Further, the report mentions that 3 accused are in police custody and 8 other accused named in the FIR are absconding. Pointing out that it is unable to comprehend atrocities perpetrated in the state of West Bengal, the commission condemned the 'pitiable' state of law and order in the state.
Kolkata: Yet another example of mob justice prevailing in India has come to light from the state of West Bengal where a woman was manhandled and mercilessly assaulted by locals allegedly over her illicit affair with a villager. A video of the incident shot under the limits of Nanoor police station in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district on Friday is going viral on social media platforms. Inputs suggest that the woman was a resident of the village until when she allegedly eloped with a local. She returned years later with the hope of being forgiven and accepted by her family members. However, it seems that they held her accountable for engaging in an extramarital affair. The matter got out of hand on Friday afternoon when an argument between her and the locals went awry. In the video, scores of villagers, mostly women, can be seen manhandling the victim and thrashing her black and blue even as a handful of people attempt to rescue her from the wrath of the impatient mob. She was then stripped naked and paraded across the village.
