more-inThe police in Meghalaya’s West Garo Hills district have arrested a man for assaulting a woman as punishment for her alleged relationship with a person from a different community. We took suo motu cognisance of the incident and caught one of the two men seen in the video assaulting the woman,” MGR Kumar, superintendent of police of West Garo Hills district, said. “This appears to be a case of moral policing,” he added. The police in Charaideo district caught a man for allegedly attempting to rape a woman in Lukurakhon village. The villagers had caught the man, identified as Azizur Haque from Dhubri district, and handed him over to the police.

Source: The Hindu April 16, 2018 12:45 UTC