Gujarat: Two minor girls battered by mob for talking on phone in Dahod

VADODARA: Two minor girls were beaten up and abused in public by a mob in Dahod district. An offence regarding the incident was registered after a video of the episode went viral on social media. Eight people were arrested in connection with the offence.
The incident took place at the Bhuvero village of the Dhanpur taluka. This is the third incident of its kind to take place in the district in July and the second one in Dhanpur.
The video shows a group surrounding two teenage girls and shouting at them.Some members of the group also beat up the two girls and manhandled them.
Dhanpur police reached out to the mother of one of the girls who was badly beaten up and registered a complaint after the video went viral. The mother of the 13-year-old girl revealed that the incident took place on June 25.
The girl’s paternal uncle and her brother took her out of the house. They were furious as the girl had been speaking to someone using a boy’s mobile phone. The uncle’s daughter was allegedly facilitating this.
Around 15 persons that largely comprised of close relatives of the two girls surrounded them even as the girl’s uncle and others reprimanded. Her brother also even manhandled them.
Dhanpur police sub-inspector B M Patel said that eight accused were arrested in connection with the offence. He said that some time back too the girl had been spotted speaking to someone over a phone and had been reprimanded. Patel said that the girl had been counselled and the remaining accused would be arrested.
Earlier, a video of a woman being forced to carry her husband on her shoulder in Khajuri village in Dhanpur taluka had gone viral. It had come to light that this was done after beating her up as she had eloped with her paramour. More recently, a woman and her paramour were beaten up and partly tonsured in the Uchwan village of Devgadh Baria taluka.