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This is an archive article published on March 4, 2022
Pune: Six barge into house, thrash women ‘for wearing shorts’
The three women, in their 20s, are paying guests at a house in Kharadi. Police said two of them are software engineers working in Pune.
Police also said there have been quarrels in the past between the owner of the house the women live in and the persons who thrashed them. No arrest has been made yet.
Six residents of a Pune locality barged into the residence of three women late on Wednesday night and thrashed them with slippers allegedly because they objected to the latter wearing shorts around the area.
The three women, in their 20s, are paying guests at a house in Kharadi. Police said two of them are software engineers working in Pune.
Police also said there have been quarrels in the past between the owner of the house the women live in and the persons who thrashed them. No arrest has been made yet.
The owner of the house, a 32-year-old woman, filed a complaint at the Chandan Nagar police station on Thursday. Based on her complaint, an FIR was lodged and the police booked six people — Alka Pathare, Sachin Pathare, Ketan Pathare, Seema Pathare, Shital Pathare and Kiran Pathare — under trespass, causing hurt, and criminal intimidation charges, among others.
According to the complaint, the residents were allegedly angered by the women wearing shorts around the locality. Around 10.15 pm on Wednesday, the accused persons allegedly forced their way into the house, thrashed the women with their footwear, abused the complainant, and threatened to demolish the house.
Assistant Police Inspector Manohar Sonawane said investigation is on in the case. Police are also examining CCTV footage of the scene outside the house.
The complainant in this case said, “Accused persons are my neighbours. They had a quarrel with us even in the past. Some girls and women have been staying as PG at our house for the last few months and they do not trouble anyone…”
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