Family pride is such a thing that often forces people to commit heinous crimes which, on most occasions, leave a painful mark on the victims. In a similar incident in Alirajpur in Madhya Pradesh, a young married couple was stripped, beaten up and forced to drink urine for marrying against the wishes of the bride’s family.
In a video filmed by one of the accused, the man can be seen tied to a pole and the half-stripped girl sitting next to him. While letting them go, the accused allegedly told the woman that the punishment was revenge for “hurting the family’s pride.”
Ramesh alias Hitesh (21) and his wife Nankibai (19) were living in the same village of Alirajpur and had got married in May against the wishes of Nankibai’s parents. To normalise things with the woman’s family after the marriage, the man had paid them Rs 70,000 in cash and two goats. But following a decision from the caste Panchayat, the couple was attacked on Saturday.
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“They came back from Gujarat last week and was staying at the house of her husband’s uncle. The girl’s parents came to know about this and kidnapped them at gunpoint on July 25,” a local Police official Vikas Kapis was quoted as saying by the NDTV portal.
In their complaint to the police, the couple said some relatives of the woman picked them up from home around 4 am at gunpoint. They partially stripped the woman, chopped off her hair and mercilessly beat them up.
The police added that the couple approached them after the incident and filed a complaint against the girl’s father, her two uncles and three others. “We have arrested two of the accused,” the officer revealed.