News India Justice Ganguly takes suo motu cognisance of outraging modesty of girl

Justice Ganguly takes suo motu cognisance of outraging modesty of girl

Kolkata: West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairman Justice (retd) Ashok Kumar Ganguly, indicted by a Supreme Court judges' committee for “conduct of sexual nature”, has taken suo motu cognisance of a case of outraging the

“A young man alongwith some associates followed them and started teasing them and ultimately the attitude of the teasers became very serious,” Samanta said.

“One of the girls informed her brother over mobile phone and when he came and protested, he was brutally assaulted by the eve-teasers,” the WBHRC registrar said.

“At the intervention of the local people, one of them was detained while three others fled,” he said.

He said that learning from the newspapers about the incident, the Commission decided to take suo motu cognizance of the incident.

Police sources said that all the four accused have been arrested.

They have been charged under sections 354 (assault or use of criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 506 (uttering any word or making any gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongfully restraining a person), 325 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of IPC, the sources said.


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