New Delhi: In a new twist to the shocking case where a 70-year-old woman was allegeldy paraded naked in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district, the woman has finally said that nothing like this was done to her.
In an article published in Rajasthan Patrika, the woman said, “Neither I was paraded naked nor they blackened my face. I wasn’t even made to sit on the donkey. I just did what my relatives told me ie to sign on land papers and I gave my thumb impression.”
She also revealed that her relatives did harass her relating to a property issue but that was two years back.
70-year-old Haribai Gujjar denied all angles in the case and just clarified that it was a matter related to property dispute.
According to reports on Sunday, the woman had alleged that the act was carried out by her relatives who wanted to grab her property at Kameri-Chouhan village in Bhilwara district.
Haribai told police that her relatives just asked her to sign few land papers and she had no idea as to what was written on them.
What was the matter reported earlier
Haribai Gujjar was allegedly paraded naked and tortured in Rajasthan’s Bhilwara district has come up. The woman alleged that the disturbing act was carried out by her relatives who wanted to grab her property at Kameri-Chouhan village in Bhilwara district.
The FIR was filed by Haribai Gujjar, a widow, with the Raipur Police station in Bhilwara district on Saturday about the alleged incident of November 23, SHO Bajju Ram said.
Preliminary investigations revealed that it was a land dispute in which the woman and her five relatives, including her foster son, were involved, the SHO said.
In her statement, the woman told the Investigating Officer that she was made to put her thumb impression on some papers, the SHO said.
He said no eyewitnesses have come forward so far.
The village panchayat of Kameri-Chouhan which met on November 23 had ruled that no one should buy her land and promote any deal to any buyer, the SHO said, quoting the village head.
A case WAS registered under sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 123 (Concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war), 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC against five persons — Dayaram (foster son), Manna, Suresh, Shankar, and Paras, the SHO said.
