Moral policing: Four individuals together with two girls harassed by locals in Kerala’s Kasaragod
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By PTI
KASARGOD (Kerala): An incident of ethical policing was reported from this northern Kerala district when a bunch of 4, together with two girls, had been allegedly restrained and harassed by some locals over them travelling collectively, police mentioned on Monday.
The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when the group had been coming back from Bekal Fort right here after celebrating the birthday of one in all them, police mentioned.
On the way in which again they stopped at an eatery to have meals and on popping out, some individuals restrained them from leaving of their automobile and questioned them as to what they had been doing there, an officer of Melparamba police station mentioned.
An altercation additionally ensued because of this, based on visuals of the incident proven on TV channel.
Subsequently, police had been knowledgeable and when officers arrived on the spot, they took into custody 4 individuals who had allegedly restrained the group of 4 and had harassed them, the officer mentioned.
No one was injured within the incident, the officer mentioned.
The arrest of the 4 has not but been recorded, police mentioned.
An FIR underneath sections 143 (illegal meeting), 147 (rioting), 354 (outraging a girl’s modesty), 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 294(b) (obscene acts or songs) and 506 (legal intimidation) of the IPC has been registered towards the 4 accused, police mentioned.
Besides that, the accused have additionally been booked underneath part 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence committed in prosecution of frequent object) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the officer mentioned.
KASARGOD (Kerala): An incident of ethical policing was reported from this northern Kerala district when a bunch of 4, together with two girls, had been allegedly restrained and harassed by some locals over them travelling collectively, police mentioned on Monday.
The incident occurred on Sunday afternoon when the group had been coming back from Bekal Fort right here after celebrating the birthday of one in all them, police mentioned.
On the way in which again they stopped at an eatery to have meals and on popping out, some individuals restrained them from leaving of their automobile and questioned them as to what they had been doing there, an officer of Melparamba police station mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
An altercation additionally ensued because of this, based on visuals of the incident proven on TV channel.
Subsequently, police had been knowledgeable and when officers arrived on the spot, they took into custody 4 individuals who had allegedly restrained the group of 4 and had harassed them, the officer mentioned.
No one was injured within the incident, the officer mentioned.
The arrest of the 4 has not but been recorded, police mentioned.
An FIR underneath sections 143 (illegal meeting), 147 (rioting), 354 (outraging a girl’s modesty), 341 (wrongful restraint), 323 (voluntarily inflicting harm), 294(b) (obscene acts or songs) and 506 (legal intimidation) of the IPC has been registered towards the 4 accused, police mentioned.
Besides that, the accused have additionally been booked underneath part 149 (each member of illegal meeting responsible of offence committed in prosecution of frequent object) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), the officer mentioned.
