Published 23:59 IST, July 15th 2021

Savagery in Gujarat's Dahod as villagers assault, strip, parade & record 23-year old woman

Gujarat: A woman was stripped off, paraded in the entire village of Khajuri by her family and elders of the village. Her crime? To have fallen in love.

Reported by: Priyanka Sharma
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A 23-year-old woman was stripped off her clos and made to parade around entire vill of Khajuri vill of Dhanpur tehsil of Dahod district of state of Gujarat. A video was made of entire incident to make a statement that is quite clear: a woman needs to kw her place. 

A video went viral of incident where it is seen that villrs are stripping off clos of woman, while rest of people cheer on and laugh at her. She was made to walk a little more around vill and her husband leading mob is seen tearing off rest of clos that she has on. Towards end of video, it can be seen that men (especially her husband) are tearing off her clos as nearby women give her a dupatta to wrap around her semi-nude body.

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Police take cognizance of incident 

police have taken cognizance of entire matter and have registered an FIR on altoger 19 people out of which three are juvenile delinquents. “We have taken issue with a lot of seriousness. As soon as we saw video, we took cognizance. We have also spoken to man with whom victim had eloped and we have taken his statement as well,” said Hitesh Joisar, Superintendent of Police, Dahod.

police have also been on lookout for rest of accused in matter. police officials also claimed that y are also looking for person responsible for making video viral as well.  officials also stated that y will be giving protection to woman and also her lover and making sure that re are more such incidents in future. re will also be compensation that will be given to her for same, y said.

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23:59 IST, July 15th 2021