Belagavi : Twenty people have been charged in relation to the shocking incident in which a woman in Karnataka’s Belagavi district was allegedly sexually assaulted and imprisoned over a land dispute.
The woman claimed that she had filed a court complaint regarding the encroachment on her agricultural land when she went to the Bailhongal police station with her complaint.
“When I was at bus stop, all of a sudden 25 to 30 people attacked me. They pulled my hair and touched my private parts,” she said.
“They dragged me from the bus stop and locked me up in the panchayat office. They took away money and the mobile phone and got signatures on documents forcefully. Afterwards, the accused let me go by the evening,” she told police.
The case has been transferred to Belagavi Women’s police station.
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