Lucknow, July 9 - A 50-year-old woman was assaulted and paraded naked through an Uttar Pradesh village because her son was caught with a girl, police said Thursday.

Five members of the girl's family caught the woman by her hair and forced her to walk naked through the village in Aligarh district's Padiawali village, about 300 km from here.

Although the incident took place Monday, police registered a case only Thursday. A police inspector has been suspended for the delay.

Describing the events leading up to the incident, Superintendent of Police Hridesh Kumar (rural) told IANS over phone: 'The boy and the girl were spotted together in the village fields by some locals. They informed the girl's father, who along with his four sons started beating him with wooden sticks.'

When the mother intervened to try and rescue her son, they turned on her, he added.

All the five suspects are absconding.