What is happening to my Dream City

Pune is my dream place to work. I don't know why, but I love that place. I love the climate of Pune. Another reason could be because its close and far enough form Mumbai. Also its a quiet place.

Today I read this story in Times of India. Now there are many incidents coming in to picture where a woman is being paraded naked. Is it a kind of trend. Or is it just to put some

Pune : Maharashtra:
Telgaon, Asha Bai’s native place, is an obscure speck on Maharashtra’s map. This village, with a population of about 3,000 people, is 15 km from Solapur. On March 11, Asha Bai (25) was allegedly beaten, verbally abused, stripped and paraded naked by nine people, all of them — two women and seven men — from her own village. Her "crime": She was suspected to have made an anonymous complaint to the police against the illegal sale of liquor and a prostitution racket in Telgaon in November 2005. This was because around the same time she was frequenting Solapur to attend court hearings. Asha Bai then filed an FIR against the offenders at the Solapur taluka station on March 14. The police arrested eight of the nine accused, including Shivaji Laxman Patil, the village sarpanch. One accused is absconding. The accused are now in judicial custody.

Though life in the village seems to be ambling along as usual, two police officers and two units of 25 police personnel are currently deployed in Telgaon in case tensions flare up. The village has 300 Dalit families. Asha Bai belongs to the Chamar caste. "All the nine accused are upper-caste members," says deputy superintendent of police N K Thakur, the investigating officer for the case. "After the accused were arrested, nine Dalit women from the village came forward to confess to the crime. They say they beat up Asha Bai but did not disrobe her. I think they have been paid to confess," says Thakur. Meanwhile, in another barbaric incident in Beed district, a 32-year-old woman lost an eye in an acid attack after she was assaulted and paraded naked in broad daylight on Monday by five villagers over an old feud.

Police have arrested three persons, including two women. According to police, the assailants tied her up, cut her hair and threw acid on her face before pushing her on the streets naked. On hearing the woman’s cries for help a number of people gathered but no one intervened. The woman then rushed to the village government hospital, where the staff came to her aid. At present, she is undergoing treatment at the Civil Hospital in Beed.

The incident occurred in village Chausala. Beed SP, Raghunath Khaire said that a
case has been registered against five persons including the deputy sarpanch
under section 326 (causing hurt), 355 (intent to dishonour a person) and 109
(abetment). Deputy sarpanch Rajendra Thorat was arrested on Monday night and was remanded to police custody till March 23. The two women, Mangal Lahu Tekade and Soni Lahu Tekade were arrested on Tuesday, Khaire said.

According to police, the woman was persuaded to come to the Autadegalli
locality of Chausala village from her Indiranagar residence in the same village
to negotiate old disputes and differences. When she reached the village, four
women — Saraswati Changdeo Autade, Mangal Lahu Tekade, Didi Lahu Tekade, Soni Lahu Tekade and the deputy sarpanch Rajendra Thorat allegedly started a quarrel. Neknoor police sources under whose jurisdiction Chausala falls said that a few days ago Rajendra Thorat had quarrelled with the woman’s brother Biru Kudwan. Thorat had lodged a complaint against Kudwan who was helped to come out on bail by his sister.

Sometimes I also feel that there is a great possibility that the women being harassed might be lying to get the case a better weight. Well what is the truth it only eyewitnesses can tell. But its shame for all of us where things like this happen.