Indore: A bank manager in Indore has been charged with violent and abusive conduct after forcing his way into a girls’ hostel on Friday night and beating up and verbally harassing students. Amarjeet Singh, 45, an employee at a private bank, was arrested on Sunday morning for assaulting an MBA student in a shocking incident of moral policing in the city’s Bhanwar Kuan area.
The hostel resident alleged that Amarjeet Singh frequently targeted them by stalking, staring and hurling verbal abuses. Police say he has been booked under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code, including those related to trespassing and assault.
“On Friday, evening some friends of ours came to meet us outside the hostel. We were talking there, outside the hostel gates. When the accused came forward and attacked our friends. There was some violence and then he followed us inside the hostel,” one of the residents said.
In a video of the attack Amarjeet Singh, wearing a blue t-shirt, can be seen thrashing a young girl amid cries of alarm from her friends. Violence and abusive conduct of the accused towards young college girls inside a private hostel premises in the name of moral policing in Indore, went viral on social media.
On the evening of the attack, Amarjeet Singh’s 67-year-old mother had objected to residents of the girls’ hostel speaking to male friends outside hostel gates. As per the family of the accused, one of the girls allegedly pushed the mother to the ground, sparking the brawl.
