Jamshedpur: Seraikela-Kharsawan police in overnight raids on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday arrested four more named accused for allegedly stripping and beating a 34-year-old anganwadi worker in Gerakocha village on Monday night.
Officer in-charge of Chowka police station Vijay Yadav said, “Search is on for the remaining three women accused. The main accused, Markar Hessa Purty, was arrested on Wednesday and later, we held four men who were named in the complaint by the anganwadi worker.”
A case has been lodged against the accused under Sections 147, 148, 341, 342, 323, 325, 307, 354(b) and 509 of the IPC. Yadav said the woman, who was subjected to torture, is currently undergoing treatment at Santevita hospital in Ranchi.
The anagnwadi worker in her complaint said three village women, whom she knew, dragged her out of the house on Monday night and allegedly stripped her and took her to another group that was waiting outside her house. Thenafter, around 10 villagers, including five men, thrashed her.
The three women accused have been identified as Anjila Topna, Sisila Purty and Oliba Kusum. According to the victim, she was accused by her tormentors of being characterless and pressurized to leave the village as they wanted to remove her from the post of an anganwadi worker.
Villagers also accused her of being in a relationship with a married man of the village, causing mental harassment to the man’s wife and forcing her to attempt suicide twice.