- Thursday, February 27, 2025
It was said that the strongman, who had lent the woman and her husband the money, wanted them to pay additional interest which they refused.
By: Shubham Ghosh
IN an appalling incident, a woman in a village in the eastern Indian state of Bihar hailing from the Dalit community, was brutally thrashed, stripped naked and urinated upon for refusing to pay additional interest on a loan she had taken from a local strongman.
According to the police, the strongman’s son urinated in the victim’s mouth.
The incident, which happened just days after India took a historic step of passing a bill for reserving 33 per cent of seats for women in the parliament and state legislative assemblies, brought to the fore yet another incident of targeting people of the marginalised Dalit community and crime against women.
The police added that the woman’s husband had borrowed Rs 1,500 (£14.76) from Pramod Singh in Mosimpur village of Patna district of the state.
It was alleged that while the couple had repaid the money, Singh had been demanding additional interest. When the couple refused, Singh, his son and some of their aides assaulted the woman and stripped her naked, the police added, NDTV reported.
After beating her with sticks and stripping her naked at an isolated area in the village, Singh allegedly instructed his son to urinate in her mouth.
The victim managed to escape and according to her family, when they went out looking for her around midnight, they saw her running towards the home without any cloth in her body. She suffered head injuries and was receiving treatment at a hospital, the police added.
The police said a complaint has been registered and a search was on to arrest the accused.
“We have formed five police teams and searches are being conducted. A case has already been registered in this regard and further investigation is on,” said Rajeev Mishra, senior superintendent of police in Patna was quoted as saying by NDTV.
