A video displaying a lady beggar being brutally assaulted exterior a temple in Punjab’s Kapurthala has sparked outrage on social media, following which police have initiated motion in opposition to the accused.
The incident occurred exterior the gate of the historic Mata Shri Bhadrakali Temple, the place the girl was sitting with kids.
The video confirmed a person approaching the girl and saying one thing to her earlier than taking off his slippers and repeatedly hitting her. When she tried to cease him, he held her hand and continued assaulting her.
Quickly after, one other girl arrived on the spot and intervened, following which a verbal argument appeared to have damaged out between the beggar and the person. The person then slapped the beggar as nicely. A crowd quickly gathered and intervened in an try and rescue the girl beggar, however the man pushed via and was seen kicking her.
The accused runs a store reverse the temple and was livid after the kids accompanying the girl have been accused of tampering along with his motorbike, following which he assaulted her. The girl beggar has not lodged a grievance with the police to date.
After the video went viral, the Ladies’s Fee and the Human Rights Core Committee sought motion within the matter. Police subsequently initiated an investigation primarily based on the viral video and took suo motu discover of the incident.
DSP Sub-Division Sheetal Singh mentioned that through the preliminary investigation, the person seen assaulting the girl within the video was recognized as Vikas Sharma.
He mentioned that an FIR has been registered, and police groups are conducting raids to arrest the accused.
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(With inputs from Suket Gupta)
