Four captured in Karnataka after viral video shows lady being stripped exposed, attacked

September 13, 2021

Police in Karnataka’s Yadgir district arrested four persons Monday after a video of a woman being stripped naked and beaten up by a gang of men went viral.
The arrested have been identified as autorickshaw driver Ningaraju (24), Ayyappa (23), Bheemashankar (28) and Sharanu (22). While Ayyappa works at a petrol pump, Bheemashankar owns a paan shop and Sharanu is a street vendor. A senior police officer said Ningaraju also worked as a home guard and as a driver at Shahapura police station.
The woman has filed a complaint as per which the police have booked a case under sections 354(B), 366, 394, 376(D), 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and various sections of the SC/ST Act.
Yadgir Superintendent of Police CB Vedamurthy disclosed to The Indian Express that the episode required a year prior. “It occurred on the Yadgir-Shahapur public thruway on the edges of the town,” he said.
“Fundamental test has uncovered that the lady was holding up at a bus station when she was snatched by the posse and attacked. It became known solely after the video circulated around the web as the lady had not recorded a grumbling before,” the SP said.

In the two-minute video, four to five men can be seen pounding her ruthlessly utilizing sugarcane sticks subsequent to stripping her down. The lady is additionally shown a photograph and found out if it was her. She implores them to let her be, however they say that nobody will discover regardless of whether they kill and copy her.
As per a cop, the lady and the denounced were connected and the attack was done as a demonstration of retribution. While the police asserted that they didn’t know about the episode which set off the assault, one of the assailants can be heard in the video saying that he had paid Rs 13,000 to her at a police headquarters and requested that she return Rs 14,000.
A senior police officer who spoke , “The woman had approached the police previously and had filed a complaint. Later they arrived at a compromise and the accused claimed that they paid her Rs 13,000 to drop the complaint.”