Overview
- A Pune Municipal Corporation enumerator has filed a complaint saying she and her son were assaulted while carrying out Census-2027 door-to-door work in a Swargate slum.
- Swargate Police registered an FIR naming five members of a local family and several unidentified people under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- Police confirmed an assault took place and said investigators will take appropriate legal action while the probe remains underway.
- The complainant, identified as a long-serving PMC sepoy, alleges her clothes were torn, valuables were targeted, and her son suffered a finger injury that required stitches.
- Officials warned the incident highlights risks faced by enumerators in dense informal settlements and urged greater public awareness and police accompaniment for census teams to protect operations.