NEW DELHI, Aug 8: A man stripped a young woman naked on the public road in Hyderabad though he was accompanied by his mother who did not try to stop her son or come to the aid of the victim woman.
The incident was of Jawahar Nagar area in Hyderabad when the young woman was reportedly returning from a clothes shop nearby around 8 P.M. on Sunday. Finding her alone, the man first touched her inappropriately and when she raised objections and confronted him, the man turned aggressive and tore of her clothes leaving her naked right on the road. Security camera footage of the incident has found its way to social media enraging citizens.
Another woman, who was passing by on a 2-wheeler, stopped and tried to stop the man, and he turned his aggression towards her. The police, in the meanwhile, reached the spot and overpowered the man and took him into custody.
The woman was reportedly left naked for some time on the road before some women covered her with a blue plastic sheet and got help. The mother of the man reportedly did not try to stop her son or protect the woman. A case has been filed under section 354 (b), 323, 506 r/w 34, (outraging modesty, criminal assault and intimidation, and criminal intent towards a common cause) affixing blame on the mother too for failing to stop her son.
(Manas Dasgupta)
