A shocking video has shown the moment a woman was tied to a tree and flogged in public by her husband on a village chief’s order for eloping with another man in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr district, India, police said on Thursday.
According to The hindustan Times, the woman’s husband, a former village head and his son were arrested after a video clip of the incident was widely circulated on social media and through messaging apps. Hindustan Times could not independently verify the authenticity of the video clip.
The incident occurred on March 10 at Launga village, about 400 km from state capital Lucknow.
Bulandshahr superintendent of police Praveen Ranjan Singh said police registered a case against 18 people, 12 of them unidentified, after receiving a copy of the video clip.
Police contacted the woman, said to be in her late 20s, at her parents’ house on Wednesday night.
“Former pradhan Shersingh, his son Shravan and woman’s husband Shaudan Singh have been arrested and raids are underway to arrest other accused,” said Singh.
The 73-second video clip, apparently shot with a mobile phone, purportedly shows the saree-clad woman’s hands tied to an overhead branch of a tree and repeatedly hit with what appeared to be a leather belt by a man in a green shirt and a jacket. The woman could be heard grunting and screaming after each hit.
The video also shows a large crowd of men watching the beating and some of them can even be heard berating the woman.
Police said the panchayat wanted to “teach a lesson to the woman”.
In her complaint to police, the woman admitted to eloping with her neighbour Dharmendra Lodhi on March 5 and staying at the house of one of his relatives in another village.
After five days, a group of people from Launga convinced the couple to return to their village.
Police said Shersingh and his supporters convened a kangaroo court and ordered her public flogging.
Some of the villagers had objected to the punishment and asked the former pradhan to stop it but they were abused and asked to leave the place.
After the beating, the woman was dragged into a room where Shersingh and his supporters allegedly molested her and asked to keep silent. The woman also accused Shersingh of asking his men to make a video of the incident so that others could see the consequences of eloping.
Watch the video of the flogging below:
pls the police should really take action
he has no right to do that no matter what
umeh blessing chinelo
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The man need to be imprisoned, he has no right to do so
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this is terrible please something should be done
quiz no 12
his a mad man
They should temper justice with mercy
Quiz no 55
The man should be punished greatly for this barbaric act.68
the man is so shameless to disgrace his wife in dat manner
quiz no:39
this man must be tortured to death..
quiz no:02
Thats really a drastic action to take
Quiz no: 95
The man over do …
But the wife mere aru
if I hear, how can he do such thing to his wife? he has no right at all. who does that? in this modern world …..
quiz:59
The man needs total deliverance
Quiz no:115
That man is uncivilized he should be arrested
So absurd.. What nonsense
Quiz no 52
This man should be brought to deck….he has no right to treat a lady like that no matter his reason.
QUIZ NO: 11
Pls the police should look into this case….
quiz no:93
Eloping!! she should quit the marriage, if she is tired.
Indians and their barbaric culture..
Quiz no 120
hmmm…sorry for the woman.
quiz no :60
What kind of a man is he.
The police shouldn’t allow it slide
Everyman who lifts his hand to hit a woman is a coward
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He was probably maltreating the woman before she thought of eloping.
Only a monster would do want he did. What rubbish?
That’s bad
Quiz no :106
It serves her right. others should learnooooo
What kind of a man will do such a thing to his wife,that’s bad of him.
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Women are always at the receiving end of the crime…Why wasnt tge man she eloped with also flogged?
he went to far,he should be taught lesson
Only in India that stupid things like this use to happen. That’s why I can never be a fan to whatever concerns them cause if you keep up with them you must surely possess an atom of stupidity
Quiz no 38
Gush! That was really death beating. I suppose the man has had it up to his neck.
The man no get sense shaa
Can this happen in Nigeria?
No. 7
India again….hmmmm well its their lifestyle but its not cool…114
God punish that man, is the wife his slave?
This is woman abuse
Quiz no 49
yes! the wife did wronged him… but that was too much Na…haba! she is a human like him na and is bound to mistakes…if na like that.. check am…Do u know d kind of punishment u would have gotten from God for ur sins both secret and not… Biko we humans should learn to be merciful
Serves her ryt..
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What kind of a man is he.
Quiz no 113
what do men take women for ?A punching bag.wat level of wickedness is dis so unfair.20
No mata wat now dis is really unfair wat an abuse to womanhood.21
no mata wat dis is really unfair and an abuse to womanhood.21
What! he has no right to do that no matter what happen. The woman was wrong but that is not the reason why he will maltreat her so badly. Oh! maybe the man sold is conscious to the devil.
quiz no:68
if I hear, how can he do such thing to his wife? he has no right at all. who does that? in this modern world …..
quiz 63
Hahaha this man is really mean and not smiling at all…that’s serious mehn.