AHMEDABAD: About ten cops of Anandnagar police station paraded a man accused of molesting a woman in the Jodhpur area, on the pretext of taking the accused to the crime scene to carry out the panchnama. The cops claimed this was needed ‘to put psychological pressure’ on the accused and other persons.
This is the first time that city cops have paraded a accused in the molestation case and have to taken him to the crime spot.
On Thursday afternoon, a team of Anandnagar police led Ashish Thakor by his handcuffs, to the road near Bandhan Party Plot in Jodhpur, where he had allegedly molested a 22-year-old woman who was on an evening walk.
Deputy commissioner of police, Zone 7, Premsukh Delu, said Thakor, who is 20, was taken there for the case panchanama.
Inspector S J Baloch of Anandnagar police said they conducted the legal procedure to substantiate the case. He, however, added, “It was also done to put pressure on him and other persons to send out a message that such acts (molestation) cannot be tolerated.”
Baloch said the accused was later produced before a court where he was given bail.
Baloch said the accused had borrowed his friend’s scooter to deliver food in area. When he saw the woman walking, he went behind her on his scooter and molested her.
“In such cases, women usually do not approach police but the complainant approached us and the accused was caught,” Baloch said. He said the complainant is has completed her graduation in architecture and is the daughter of a real estate developer.
The accused is a Class X dropout and his father works for a security agency while his mother is a domestic worker.