In a bizarre incident, five persons have been arrested for allegedly stripping a man and parading him naked in a busy market in Gujarat street after he accused them of indulging in cricket-betting, police said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday following which the accused uploaded a video of the incident on social media.

They were angry with the man as he had posted a video on Facebook, accusing them of indulging in cricket-betting, a police official said. The accused allegedly kidnapped the man, intimidated and stripped him and then paraded him in a busy market place in Khambhalia town of Devbhumi Dwarka district, Deputy Superintendent of Police Hirendra Chaudhary said.

The man who was paraded also had several cases of prohibition and gambling registered against him in the past, he said. Among the five accused in the present case, one was arrested by the Surat Crime Branch in 2016 in a cheating case, he said.

The five have been booked under various IPC sections, including 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 365 (kidnapping), 294 (indulging in the obscene act), 342 (wrongful confinement), 355 (assault or criminal force with intent to dishonor person), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy), and provisions of the Information Technology Act.

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