Published Jan 07, 2023 | 6:05 PM ⚊ Updated Jan 07, 2023 | 6:05 PM
The video of the women beating and thrashing the man went viral on social media. (Creative Commons)
A gang of 59 women allegedly assaulted a man, accusing him of circulating morphed photos of another woman on social media in Thrissur district, Kerala.
Police said a case has been registered against all the accused and 11 of them have been arrested.
The accused, all devotees of a spiritual retreat centre in Thrissur, assaulted the man — Shaji — when he was travelling with five others in a car on Thursday evening.
The video of the women dragging the man and beating and thrashing him mercilessly went viral on social media platforms. Some women, in the video, could even be seen attacking him with sticks.
A native of Muriyad village near Thrissur, Shaji is still undergoing treatment at a hospital for injuries, the police said.
The man and his family recently snapped their association with the divine retreat centre, they said.
Besides him, five other members of his family were also there in the car when the incident took place outside the centre’s campus. They also suffered minor injuries and the vehicle was damaged in the attack.
“As per the man’s complaint, the women attacked him out of a misunderstanding that he had propagated morphed pictures of a woman related to the retreat centre,” the police told PTI.
Various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including Sections 307, 143, 147, 144 and 128, and so on, were charged against the accused.
As many as 11 accused women were already remanded and sent to the women’s prison in Viyyoor. Investigations are on, they added.
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