The three accused being paraded on Tuesday
With ropes tied around their waists, they were made to walk semi-naked over 100 metres as residents lined both sides of the road, many filming the scene.
Kolkata: Thirty-six hours after an 18-year-old, his father and the youth’s friend were forced to walk naked at gunpoint in Behala’s Sarsuna by family members of a 13-year-old girl as punishment for the teen allegedly kissing her, cops on Tuesday paraded three of the accused shirtless and barefoot at the same spot, claiming they were “recreating the crime scene”. Its general secretary Altaf Ahmed said, “Where in police procedure is this allowed? The three men — father of the minor girl, her maternal uncle and a friend of the uncle — were brought to Khudiram Pally Manasatala in a police SUV. Police and paramilitary personnel formed a human chain to prevent attacks by angry neighbours. The fourth accused in the case is the girl’s mother. Cops are probing if he alerted the girl’s family after allegedly spotting the couple kissing and provided the firearm used to threaten the victims. Human rights group APDR questioned the police action. Is it written in Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita? The police are supposed to uphold the law… not take the law into their own hands.”
the uncle’s friend, Shankar Shaw, was nabbed early Tuesday While the girl’s parent and uncle were arrested on Monday.