An 18-year-old man, his father and friend were allegedly forced to strip and walk naked along a crowded road in Kolkata’s Sarsuna on Sunday after being threatened at gunpoint by the family of a 13-year-old girl, police said.
The incident occured when the young man went to the Basundhara Park to meet the girl during Lakshmi Puja on Sunday evening. A group of angry residents of Basundhara Park allegedly ransacked the girl’s house on Sunday night and again on Monday morning. Three people, including the girl’s parents and maternal uncle Rahul Burman, the prime accused, have been arrested. Police have invoked multiple charges against the accused, including criminal intimidation, kidnapping, unlawful confinement, outraging the modesty of a woman, and the use of an illegal firearm and a sharp weapon. Personnel from Sarsuna police station were deployed in the area to maintain law and order amid tension following the incident.
The family allegedly objected to the 18-year-old’s relationship with the minor, police said.
He and his friend were allegedly held by the accused, who later summoned the young man’s father over the phone, a police officer investigating the case said on condition of anonymity. A senior Kolkata Police officer said the charges had been framed under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
