UP Horror: Woman harassed on flooded road in Lucknow, viral video sparks outrage
Lucknow: In a disturbing incident captured on video, a woman riding pillion on a bike was harassed by a group of men on a flooded road in Lucknow’s Gomti Nagar area on Wednesday. The viral video triggered massive outrage on social media as a group of men, standing in knee-deep water under the Taj Hotel bridge, surrounded the bike and splashed water on the man and woman as they crossed the heavily flooded road.
As the bike attempted to move past the group, some men tried to pull it back, causing the duo to fall on the waterlogged road during heavy rain. The video also shows one man allegedly groping the woman before pulling the bike, resulting in her falling off and needing assistance to get up.
A case has been lodged under relevant charges, and three police teams have been formed to identify the miscreants. The Lucknow Police have arrested four persons – Pawan Yadav, Sunil Yadav, Mohammed Arbaaz, and Viraj Sahu – in connection with the case.
Additionally, the police commissioner has removed the Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) for the East Zone and two other senior officers from their positions. The Station House Officer (SHO) of Gomti Nagar and four other officers have also been suspended.
Lucknow: A viral video shows people mistreating a woman during rain and causing a ruckus under the Taj Hotel bridge. Police intervened, dispersed the crowd, and are identifying those involved pic.twitter.com/7TJxUYKmIv
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Allahabad HC sets aside maintenance order in favour of earning wife, says she didn't tell truth
Prayagraj (PTI): The Allahabad High Court has set aside a lower court order mandating a man to pay maintenance to his estranged wife, observing that she earns her living and did not reveal the true salary in her affidavit.
Justice Madan Pal Singh also allowed a criminal revision petition filed by the man, Ankit Saha.
"A perusal of the impugned judgment indicates that in the affidavit filed before the trial court, the opposite party herself admitted that she is a post-graduate and a web designer by qualification. She is working as a senior sales coordinator in a company and getting a salary of Rs 34,000 per month," the court said in the December 3 order.
"But in her cross-examination, she has admitted that she was earning Rs 36,000 per month. Such an amount for a wife who has no other liability cannot be said to be meagre; whereas the man has the responsibility of maintaining his aged parents and other social obligations," it observed.
The high court observed that the woman was not entitled to get any maintenance from her husband "as she is an earning lady and able to maintain herself".
The man's counsel argued in court that the estranged wife did not reveal the whole truth in the affidavit.
"She claimed herself to be an illiterate and unemployed woman. When the document filed by the man was shown to her before the trial court, she admitted her income during cross-examination. Thus, it is clear that she did not come before the trial court with clean hands," the counsel submitted.
The court, in its order, said, "Cases of those litigants who have no regard for the truth and those who indulge in suppressing material facts need to be thrown out of the court."
It impugned the lower court's February 17 judgment and order, passed by the principal judge of a family court in Gautam Buddh Nagar and allowed the criminal revision petition filed by the man.
