A 28-year-old man was thrashed, garlanded with shoes and paraded naked in a village in Rajasthan's Jhalawar district for allegedly molesting a woman, PTI reported.?
As per the report, a complaint was filed by Rakesh Rathore, which led to eight people being arrested in the case under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) pertaining to voluntarily causing hurt, defamation and wrongful confinement.?
Rathore, was also arrested and booked for house trespass, and unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures, on a complaint by the woman, PTI reported. The woman's husband had caught Rathore and his wife in his house on Saturday evening, but he was let off with a strict warning.?
However, a day later, friends of the woman's husband called Rathore and then, he was beaten, garlanded with shoes and paraded naked in Bagher village. Rathore was a supervisor of a MGNREGA project, while the woman was a worker under the national employment scheme, it was reported.
Following the incident, eight of the nine accused were arrested on Sunday. The woman's husband is absconding, as per police.
The accused had also made the video of the incident and had uploaded it on social media.?
In the initial probe, it has been found that Rathore had recently gifted the woman a mobile phone, and it is suspected that they could have been in a relationship.?