On January 19, police had lodged an FIR against unknown persons under various sections of the IPC, including 153-A (promoting enmity between classes), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 354 (outraging modesty of women), 509 (uttering any word or making any gesture intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 147 (rioting) at the Malviya Nagar police station.
The second woman had claimed that the group had forcibly held her hands and took her out of the house along with her sisters who reside with her.
After the court had sought police responses on the second complaint, Deputy Commissioner of Police refused to register separate case saying that she had been made witness in the first FIR relating to the same incident.
The court in its order had also said, “as the victim has already been examined as witness and her statement under Section 164 of CrPC has also been recorded no purpose would be solved after lodging of separate FIR”.
