The district police arrested two Bathinda residents late Thursday night in an alleged case of indecent illustration of girls below the garb of a magnificence contest.

Kotwali station home officer Parwinder Singh mentioned organizers of the occasion Surinder Singh and Ram Dyal Singh had been held and an investigation is underway.

On Thursday, posters asserting a magnificence contest for girls “only from general castes” had been discovered pasted at varied locations within the metropolis, together with the Ajit Singh Road locality.

According to the publicity materials, ladies profitable the competition would have a matrimonial provide from an NRI in Canada.

The alleged contest was scheduled to be held in a city-based lodge on October 23.

Police authorities swung into motion after varied social and non secular organizations strongly protested towards such a public perform.

A case below sections 501 (printing matter identified to be defamatory), 509 (meaning to insult the modesty of any girl) 109 (an presents or bribe as a reward for some favor within the train of an official perform) of the Indian Penal Code and Indecent Representation of Women Prohibition Act, 3 was registered towards the accused.