3 booked for assaulting farmer, molesting his wife

Pilibhit: After a court order, a 37-year-old man along with his two brothers aged 40 and 32 and an unidentified friend were charged on Sunday for allegedly assaulting a 26-year-old farmer and stripping and molesting his wife at a village in Pilibhit district on March 11. The incident is linked to a land dispute between the two sides. Police said the accused barged into the farmer’s house around 7pm, abused him, and attacked him with sticks. When his 20-year-old wife intervened, she was allegedly stripped, sexually harassed, and robbed of her gold earrings. “Locals rushed to the house after hearing screams and rescued us, while the accused fled after issuing death threats,” the victim said in his police comlpaint. He alleged that despite filing a written complaint at the local police station the next day, no FIR was registered. He later sent a complaint to the SP by registered post, but no action followed, prompting him to approach the court. Local SHO said the accused have been charged under BNS sections 74 (criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 76 (criminal force to a woman with intent to disrobe her), 333 (house trespass), 309(4) (robbery), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 352 (intentional insult), and 351(3) (criminal intimidation).