RAJKOT: A court in Rajkot has ordered police to provide protection to Pooja Chauhan, who created a flutter by walking semi-nude on the city’s streets to protest alleged harassment by her husband.
The court also said she should be allowed to continue staying in her rented accommodation. Chauhan’s landlord had asked her to vacate the home after her controversial protest. The Gandhigram police station has received a copy of the order issued on Saturday by Judicial Magistrate R M Bhatt, who directed police to provide necessary protection to Chauhan.
But police said they had been unable to trace Chauhan. “After the court’s order, we went to Puja’s rented house in Shastrinagar but we found it locked,” Inspector Sardarsinh Zala said.
The court’s order directed her landlord in Shastrinagar, where Chauhan has been staying for the past year with her three-year-old daughter, not to ask her to vacate the house. The court also summoned four accused — her husband Pratap Chauhan, mother-in-law Hansa Chauhan and two neighbours — to appear before it on July 10.
However the four are suspected to have left the city following Chauhan’s protest, Zala said.
The court’s order came in response to a complaint filed by Chauhan under the Domestic Violence Act, police said.
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