A man, accompanied by his mother, stripped a young woman on a road in Hyderabad's Jawahar Nagar area on Tuesday.
The footage of the shocking incident has found its way to social media.
“The woman was reportedly returning from a clothes store nearby at around 8 pm on Sunday when the man touched her inappropriately. She raised an objection and confronted him. The man turned aggressive and stripped her right on the road, tearing her clothes,” NDTV reported.
“Another woman, who was passing by on a 2-wheeler, stopped and tried to stop the man, and he turned his aggression towards her. The police, in the meanwhile, reached the spot and overpowered the man and took him into custody,” the report said.
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It added: “The woman was reportedly naked for some time on the road before some women covered her with a blue plastic sheet and got help.”
“The mother of the man reportedly did not try to stop her son or protect the woman. A case has been filed under section 354 (b), 323, 506 r/w 34, (outraging modesty, criminal assault and intimidation, and criminal intent towards a common cause) affixing blame on the mother too for failing to stop her son,”it said.
The report quoting a resident of the area said women need to feel safe in the country.
"This kind of an incident happening just two months after what happened in Manipur, shakes the confidence of the people,"the resident was quoted in the report as having said.
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The police have arrested the man and sent him to jail, it said.
It added “the police have appealed to residents to report any anti-social activities by anyone in the area, so they can take appropriate action.”
