Bhadohi: On the orders of a local court, a case has been registered against two youths for ambushing and molesting Dalit women who went to defecate near a pond here during the night, police said on Monday.

The accused are absconding and efforts are on to trace them, they added.

According to the police, Raj Bahadur Gautam (60), a resident of Gyanpur police station area, had filed a petition in this regard in the court of Special Judge (SC/ST Act) Amit Verma on April 23 this year.

The plea mentioned a pond in front of his house where women and girls from his residence and many other nearby houses went to defecate.

It alleged that two men — Ramesh Bind and Shyamdhar Bind — in the cover of darkness, molested the women and committed obscene acts against them.

The petitioner alleged that o

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