Kolkata (West Bengal), June 15: The police in West Bengal on Sunday arrested three persons and named eight others in the First Information Report (FIR) for outraging the modesty of a woman by parading her naked in the village in Alipurduar as punishment for leaving her husband to live with another man.
The incident happened on Thursday when the woman returned to her husband’s house after six months. The 35-year-old tribal woman was paraded naked and beaten up by villagers for “leaving her husband for another man”. Three persons have been arrested while eight others named in the FIR are absconding, the local police said.
Police learnt about it on Sunday when a video of the incident was widely circulated on social media. Upon her return to the village, she was cornered by villagers, a source said. In a Kangaroo court, village elders decided to strip the woman as a form of “punishment” for her alleged extramarital affair with a man from a neighbouring village.
“Beat me as much as you can,” the woman is heard saying in the video.
After the incident, she left for her parents’ house in Assam. Police brought her back on Sunday night and a complaint was registered. The three arrested persons were produced in the Alipurduar court on Monday and remanded to police custody.