A shocking video has revealed that a village panchayat in Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh ordered the public flogging of a married woman because she had eloped with another man. She was subject to the assault after her husband forcibly brought her back from another village.
The incident took place on March 10 but police took action only on Thursday, 12 days later when the video of her beating went viral on social media.
In the video, the woman is seen tied to a tree as her husband whips her with a belt, with a crowd of around 100 people looking on.
After the video clip was widely circulated on social media, the Bulandshahr police booked the woman’s husband, a former panchayat pradhan (head) and his son for ordering the beating.
“We arrested former pradhan Shersingh, his son Shravan and the woman’s husband Shaudan Singh under relevant IPC Sections,” said Praveen Ranjan Singh, SP, Bulandshahr. He added that after the video surfaced, police contacted the woman to file a complaint.
