Lucknow: An FIR has been lodged against nine persons on Thursday for thrashing a 25-year-old man after tying him to a tree at Bahuta village under the limits of Patti police station of Pratapgarh district in the intervening night of August 13 and 14.
The police swung into action when a video of the incident went viral on social media on Thursday.
Sub inspector Hari Mohan said the victim Ravi Soni of Ramapur was visiting his maternal uncle’s house in the village.
“On August 13 night, Ravi had apparently entered the house of one Akhtar of the same village. When Akhtar raised an alarm about the suspicious entry, locals including Saqid, Atqul Rehman, Sabir, Imtiyaz, Guddu, Mahesh Pal and others caught Ravi and tied him to a tree. They assaulted him and tried to know the reason behind the act. One of the villagers shot the video and made it viral on social media on August 16. Further investigations are on,” said the official.
He said the case has been lodged under sections 147 (rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 342 (wrongly confinement), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (insulting someone intentionally to provoke them) of IPC and section 67 of IT Act.
