Crime

UP: Teenage couple publicly humiliated, 13 booked

"It is an unfortunate incident. The couple is of the same community. After registering a case against the accused, police are searching for them," said ASP Dipendra Chaudhary

Photo courtesy: Twitter/@Arv_Ind_Chauhan
Photo courtesy: Twitter/@Arv_Ind_Chauhan

In a shocking incident, a teenage couple was shamed publicly by villagers, who blackened their faces and paraded them in their village over their alleged love affair.

The villagers also forced the couple to wear a garland of shoes.

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The incident, which took place on Monday, was reported from a village of the district under Gaur police circle.

On the complaint of the boy's mother, police have registered a case against 13 people under sections 147, 149, 323, 504, 506, 355 of IPC and sections 74, 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015.

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"It is an unfortunate incident. The couple is of the same community. After registering a case against the accused, police are searching for them," said ASP Dipendra Chaudhary.

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