A woman was tonsured, publicly shamed and paraded with a blackened face and a garland of shoes hanging from her neck at Shahdara in Delhi on Wednesday. She was also allegedly sexually assaulted.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) R. Sathiyasundaram said a case under 12 Sections of the IPC, including gang rape, abduction and wrongful confinement, has been registered.
Seven women have been arrested and two minors (all from the same family) have been apprehended in the case, while the police are looking for more suspects.
A senior police officer said the victim’s parents and the accused family were neighbours and the woman was allegedly in a relationship with a teenage son of the accused.
The son killed himself in November last year and his family members blamed the woman for his death.
The accused assaulted her in full public view. In some videos of the incident — recorded by the accused themselves — a group of women can be seen smearing black polish on the victim’s face, chopping off her hair and abusing her before parading her in the colony. People could be heard cheering and hooting in the background.
