MEMBERS OF Jamat Raza-E-Mustafa and All India Raza Action Committee were booked for allegedly assaulting and misbehaving with an Indian Railways employee who was with a woman at a city guest house on Saturday, Bareilly police said on Wednesday.
According to the police, the man and the woman belong to different communities, visited the guest house on Saturday afternoon and asked for a room, which was given to them after they submitted copies of their IDs.
An hour later, a group of people reached the guest house and forced them to open the door, said police. Three-four persons allegedly assaulted the man while others asked the woman her name, even as she pleaded with them not to make a video the incident, police said.
“Preliminary investigation indicates that some guest house employees informed the two organisations after they came to know about the women’s identity from the copy of her ID. We will take action against the erring staff members,” said Bareilly Superintendent of Police Rahul Bhati. “On the basis of a complaint lodged by a police sub-inspector, an FIR was registered under IPC sections 354C (voyeurism), 354D (stalking), 228 A (disclosure of the identity of the victim), 509 (intending to insult the modesty of any woman) and relevant sections of the IT Act. We have named the two organisations in the FIR as we do not know the names of those involved in the incident. We will arrest the accused after they are identified,” the officer in-charge of the police station concerned told The Indian Express.
“We will identify the accused through our sources and the available video footage. Strict action will be taken against them,” said Bareilly Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary.
Jamat Raza-E-Mustafa’s Vice President Salman Hasan Khan told The Indian Express, “I do not think our members have done anything wrong. They found several objectionable photos of the woman on the mobile phone of the railway employee. Was she raped at the guest house? Moreover, police themselves registered a complaint and registered an FIR, even though the man and the woman refused to file a complaint.” “I will meet senior police officers in Bareilly and apprise them of the plight of the woman who was lured by the man,” claimed Khan. All India Raza Action Committee’s Bareilly unit secretary Imran Raza said, “I was not in Bareilly at the time of the [alleged] incident. So I am not in a position to comment.”