CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: Police have launched a search for a Beed village sarpanch and his nine aides after registering an FIR against them on the charge of beating up a lawyer till she almost lost her consciousness.
The lawyer, Dnyaneshwari Anjan (36) from Sangao village near Ambajogai taluka of Beed, was assaulted for allegedly opposing noise pollution caused by loudspeakers at some places of worship Monday. Police said she had also objected to the installation of three flour mills near her home.
The in-charge of Yusuf Wadgaon police station, Machindranath Shendge, said an offence was registered the day after the alleged assault on the woman lawyer. "All the accused are absconding. Search teams have been formed to trace them."
Cops search for sarpanch for assault on woman lawyer
The incident sparked public outcry after video clips and photographs of the assault were circulated widely on social media platforms Friday.
State congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal said: "If a woman lawyer is not safe, what about the ordinary citizens? If Maharashtra has a full-time home minister, the administration should arrest the culprits and take strict action against them."
Talking to the media, the lawyer, Anjan, accused the sarpanch and nine others of assaulting her with sticks and plastic pipes.
"They formed a circle and beat me up all over, including my head. I almost fell unconscious," she said.
"The blaring noise of the loudspeakers, and also of the flour mills, would trigger my migraine and leave me in pain. I had raised the issue with the sarpanch and subsequently with the local police. The sarpanch had visited our home and told my parents to reprimand me," Anjan said, while talking to TOI.
The Yusuf Wadgaon police registered FIR against 10 men, including the village sarpanch, under sections 191(2) (punishment for rioting), 74 (assault or use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty), 189 (unlawful assembly), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 118(2) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous means or weapons), among other charges, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Police said all the accused were absconding till Friday evening.
NCP (SP) MP Amol Kolhe said the incident of a woman lawyer being "thrashed by 10-12 men is a blot on a progressive state like Maharashtra, which boasts of icons like Jijabai, Ahilyabai Holkar and Savitribai Phule".
In a post on X, NCP (SP)'s Jitendra Awhad said: "If the sarpanch has such a style of working, it needs to be found out to which party he belongs."
The lawyer, Dnyaneshwari Anjan (36) from Sangao village near Ambajogai taluka of Beed, was assaulted for allegedly opposing noise pollution caused by loudspeakers at some places of worship Monday. Police said she had also objected to the installation of three flour mills near her home.
The in-charge of Yusuf Wadgaon police station, Machindranath Shendge, said an offence was registered the day after the alleged assault on the woman lawyer. "All the accused are absconding. Search teams have been formed to trace them."
Cops search for sarpanch for assault on woman lawyer
The incident sparked public outcry after video clips and photographs of the assault were circulated widely on social media platforms Friday.
State congress chief Harshvardhan Sapkal said: "If a woman lawyer is not safe, what about the ordinary citizens? If Maharashtra has a full-time home minister, the administration should arrest the culprits and take strict action against them."
Talking to the media, the lawyer, Anjan, accused the sarpanch and nine others of assaulting her with sticks and plastic pipes.
"They formed a circle and beat me up all over, including my head. I almost fell unconscious," she said.
"The blaring noise of the loudspeakers, and also of the flour mills, would trigger my migraine and leave me in pain. I had raised the issue with the sarpanch and subsequently with the local police. The sarpanch had visited our home and told my parents to reprimand me," Anjan said, while talking to TOI.
The Yusuf Wadgaon police registered FIR against 10 men, including the village sarpanch, under sections 191(2) (punishment for rioting), 74 (assault or use of criminal force against a woman with the intent to outrage her modesty), 189 (unlawful assembly), 351(2) (criminal intimidation) and 118(2) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous means or weapons), among other charges, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
Police said all the accused were absconding till Friday evening.
NCP (SP) MP Amol Kolhe said the incident of a woman lawyer being "thrashed by 10-12 men is a blot on a progressive state like Maharashtra, which boasts of icons like Jijabai, Ahilyabai Holkar and Savitribai Phule".
In a post on X, NCP (SP)'s Jitendra Awhad said: "If the sarpanch has such a style of working, it needs to be found out to which party he belongs."
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