Police have imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prohibit an unlawful assembly of eunuchs at public plac☂es in Maharashtra's Nagpur city for two months following extortion complaints against them, officials said.
In Maharashtra's Nagpur city, police have imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prevent eunuchs from unlawfully assembling in public places, officials said.
Police have imposed Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to prohibit an unlawful assembly of eunuchs at public plac☂es in Maharashtra's Nagpur city for two months following extortion complaints against them, officials said.
There have been complaints that eunuchs visit public places, traff♈ic signals, houses of people, wedding functions, and other programmes without being invited, indulge in obscene acts, and threaten citizens to extort money from them, a release from the Nagpur police said.
Some of the citizens also had to face abuses and in worst cases physica🦂l assault too, if they refused to give 💝in to such demands, Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar said in the release.
Hence, CP Kumar has impos𒊎ed Section 144 of the CrPC to prevent their unlawful assembly in Nagpur with effect from February 17 to April 17, 2023, the release said.
In case of any violation of the order, action will be t𓆏aken under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, the Maharashtra Police Act, and other legal provisions, it said.
The city police recently registered two criminal offences against gܫ🉐roups of eunuchs on charges of extortion, according to officials.