Belagavi Case: Karnataka Govt Hands Over Probe To CID, 11 Arrested So Far

The 42-year-old lady was stripped, paraded nude, and chained to an electric pole in Hosa Vantamuri hamlet, 9 kilometres outside the city, early on December 11.

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The Karnataka government directed the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate an incident in which a woman was stripped and exhibited naked after her son eloped with a woman in Belagavi on Sunday, news agency ANI reported. Because the woman is suffering from acute trauma, the top court has barred anyone from visiting her. In connection with the incident, Belagavi Commissioner of Police SN Siddaramappa suspended Inspector Vijayakumar Shinnur of the Kakati station on Saturday.

The 42-year-old lady was stripped, paraded nude, and chained to an electric pole in Hosa Vantamuri hamlet, 9 kilometres outside the city, early on December 11.

Karnataka Government issued an order handing over the investigation into the case of assault of a woman in Vantamuri village of Belagavi district to the CID.

11 accused have already been arrested in the case and two including a minor are on the run.

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The widow's 24-year-old son, according to authorities, was in love with an 18-year-old woman. Her family had planned for the woman's marriage to another guy on December 11. However, the pair had fled before the intended engagement ceremony.

The police have detained 11 persons in the case and are on the lookout for others. The victim has been given two acres of land by the state government as part of the Karnataka Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation's Land Ownership Scheme.

The Karnataka High Court, hearing a suo motu case, ruled on Saturday that no individual, organisation, association, or political party should visit the lady without written permission from the trauma doctor.

The decision was made after Chief Justice Prasanna B Varale saw a video clip in which officials of the National Human Rights Commission and a political party group visited the woman. JP Nadda, the national president of the BJP, has appointed a five-member "fact-finding committee" to examine the scene of the event.

“However, considering the fact that the victim has suffered unbearable trauma, the flow of visitors is likely to affect her health condition and disturb the medical treatment. Therefore, we deem it appropriate to restrict visitors in the best interest of the victim and to secure undisturbed medical treatment," the court stated.