Via PTI
SHILLLONG: The Meghalaya State Fee for Girls on Monday requested police to sign up a suo moto case in opposition to the ones desirous about heckling and tying a lady to a pole for alleged pickpocketing at a market in Jowai closing week.
A senior legitimate of the fee mentioned it sought criminal motion after the girl refused to record an FIR in opposition to the culprits.
“We’ve requested the police to sign up a suo moto case in opposition to the perpetrators concerned within the felony act,” MSCW Chairperson Phidalia Toi mentioned.
An undated video, which went viral on Would possibly 13, confirmed the girl, in her twenties, being taken to a shed via unknown other folks all through the daylight, requested questions after which tied to a pole amidst jeering via onlookers.
As in keeping with a initial investigation via the Meghalaya Police, the perpetrators attempted to show the girl a lesson for being “a routine culprit”. No arrest has but been made in reference to the incident.