PILIBHIT: Ensuring compliance with a judicial order issued by the court of additional district and sessions judge (Pocso Act) in Pilibhit, police on Monday night registered a case against four persons of a family for allegedly barging into the house of a 40-year-old man, assaulting him and breaking his four teeth for objecting to their act of felling a neem tree in front of his house.The key accused’s two sons, aged 30 and 27 years, molested the man’s 14-year-old minor girl and stripped her in front of her father when she rushed to rescue him. His wife was also beaten savagely when she intervened to protect their daughter, the complainant said.The incident happened at a village under Madhotanda police station on Oct 22. After filing a complaint, police sent him to a govt medical facility for medical examination and X-ray, but declined to register an FIR as the accused people are politically connected, the complainant alleged.The man said that he again sent a fresh complaint to SP Abhishek Yadav through a registered post on Dec 3, but this was also not considered for legal action. Finally, he approached court.SHO Ashok Pal said four accused — a man, his 2 sons and his younger brother — were booked under BNS sections 74 (criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 76 (using criminal force to a woman with intent to disrobe her), 131 (assault or use of criminal force to any person otherwise than on grave and sudden provocation given by that person), 333 (house trespass after preparations for assault), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) and 117(2) (voluntarily causing grievous hurt).(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
