India: Man stripped naked and forced to ride bike for harassing woman

Villagers in India took the law into their own hands by thrashing and stripping a man naked before making him ride a bike nude for assaulting a woman.

An Indian man was beaten by a mob for harassing a young woman. The harasser was grabbed by the crowd before he was assaulted and stripped naked. The incident took place in the village of Chatiwind, near Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab, according to an international news website.

Later the man was forced to ride a motorbike naked.

The issue was that the man followed the woman everywhere she went, reportedly.

Some of the girl’s family members eventually caught him harassing her. They grabbed him and beat him before more of the girl’s family members arrived at the scene.

The mob tore off his clothes, leaving him completely naked apart from the shoes he had on.

A video was of the incident was posted online.

Both the victim and harasser failed to file a complaint, however, a case was registered by the police.

Officers have said that the young man was from a different village and was attracted to the young woman. He would travel to her home village where he would follow her.

On Tuesday, November 19, the man travelled to Chatiwind and followed the woman on his motorbike.

When he rode closer to her, he threw a piece of paper at her which had his mobile number. However, the woman’s family members saw that.

Although the matter was not reported, the video came to the attention of the police.

Local police officials said that the incident is being investigated and further action will be taken based on what they saw from the video.