Two protestors arrested for stripping woman constable

RAIPUR: The Raigarh police has arrested two men for allegedly stripping an on-duty woman constable’s uniform during an anti-mining violence that took place in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on December 27, 2025. The incident came to light after the video of the incident went viral on social media. The horrifying video was uploaded by All India Mahila Congress on Friday. In the video an on duty woman constable is fallen on the ground and is begging before the two men to stop stripping her clothes. But the two men tear her clothes and trying to pull it off. The woman continues to beg saying she made a mistake of coming there and she was deputed at the protest site from another place. The men threatened to strip her and questioned her why she has come there and threatened her to run away. Even after tearing her uniform, the men did not stop the assault. The attackers hurled obscene abuses during the beating. The footage, recorded by the protesters themselves, shows the constable weeping and pleading for mercy while being heckled. The clip depicts the woman constable addressing the protesters as “brothers” and asking to be released. In response, protesters are heard shouting at her, asking why she had come there and threatening to beat her with slippers before telling her to flee. This follows an earlier video from the same incident which reportedly showed a woman Town Inspector (TI) being kicked. The incident is linked to the ongoing agitation against a public hearing held on 8 December 2025 at Dhaurabhatha. Residents from 14 villages, affected by the Gare Palma Sector-1 coal block, had been staging a sit-in protest since 12 December. On 27 December, approximately 300 villagers gathered at Libra Chowk around 9 am. The protesters blocked the road, disrupting traffic and leading to the confrontation with police personnel.