Activist Trupti Desai assaulted youth in public who shamed girl
Activist Trupti Desai assaulted youth in public who shamed girl
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Pune: Activist Trupti Desai along with another member of her Bhumata Brigade assaulted a youth in broad daylight for reportedly making false promises of marriage to a girl.

The incident took place on Nagar road on Wednesday when Ms. Desai beat up the youth with her sandals amid high drama.

The local police arrested the man, identified as Srikant Londhe, after the beating and have charged him with rape. They alleged he had also forced the 24-year-old woman to undergo an abortion.

Amid a debate over vigilantism, Ms Desai has said that the public beating was an attempt to teach the man a lesson.

Ms Desai said, "We thrashed him in full public view and forced the police to register the woman's complaint and whenever there will be violence or such cases against women, I will take the law in my hand".

"When the girl came to me with the complaint, I even met the man's father and insisted that he marry her, but he refused and tried to settle the matter by offering money to the victim," the activist said.

The Bhumata Brigade leader further alleged that the boy had had illicit affairs with a couple of other girls by luring them on the false pretext of marriage in the past.

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