Lucknow, July 10: In a shocking incident an old woman was allegedly stripped and paraded in public at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh district over her son’s affair with a girl of a higher caste, according to police sources.
The incident took place on Monday night when the 60-year-old woman tried to rescue her son, who was being thrashed by the members of upper caste after he was allegedly caught with the girl in a ‘compromising situation’ in a field, sources said.
Angry over the woman’s intervention, the girl’s family members stripped her and paraded her in the village even as other villagers remained mute spectators to the incident.
Aligarh Superintendent of Police Man Singh said that a case has been registered and efforts were on to nab the culprits.
He added that a heavy police contingent has been stationed at Padiawali village where tension prevailed.
-Agencies