Ugly incident of moral policing in Sundargarh as Bengali labourers, stripped, tied and paraded

: In a shameful incident, eight Bengali labourers were stripped, tied with an iron wire and paraded for over 1.5 kms in Mission road under town police limits in Sundargarh district on Thursday. One of them labourers had misbehaved with a local woman while she was taking bath, sources said.

He also tried to pull the woman, but when she shouted he fled the scene. But her family members caught him and thrashed him. However, the story did not end here.



A group of individuals of the same place heard this unpleasant incident and took the matter to their hands. In a classic case of moral policing, the group of individuals, gheraoed the eight Bengali labourers. They then forced them to strip and tied their hands with an iron wire.

They also paraded them over 1.5 km distance. A few elderly labourers among them also had to go through such inhumane treatment.

Police received the news and rushed to the spot to rescue the labourers. As they saw police, the individuals created a ruckus. They broke the cameras and microphones of the journalists covering the news.

Police registered a complaint against the accused Bengali labourer on the basis of the woman’s statement. Another complaint on the basis of the statement of the labourers was filed against the group of individuals..