In a case of brazen hooliganism, a woman was manhandled and kicked by a group of miscreants in public in broad daylight at Bindusagar Road in Old Town under the Lingaraj police station here on Tuesday.
A CCTV footage of the incident shows the woman identified as Sabita Sethi (38) being thrashed, manhandled and kicked by six to seven youths in full public glare.
However, the passersby turned silent spectators instead of intervening and rescuing the woman. Later, the video of the incident went viral on social media. As per the complaint lodged with the Lingaraj police on Wednesday, Sabita’s family had a dispute with members of Taranga Club for long.
In the evening, when Sabita went to drop her son to his tuition classes, some club members came in inebriated condition and started hurling abuses over the old land dispute and pelted stones at her house.
Sabita also alleged that, the anti-socials also attacked her father and uncle besides abusing them in filthy language. Though she has lodged a police complaint in this regard, no action has been taken yet and the accused are still moving scot-free.