A married woman and her paramour were tied to a tree and mercilessly beaten up, allegedly on the orders of a village panchayat in north Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district. The panchayat at Gopinathpur village in Motipur block, 95 km north of Patna, ordered that the lovebirds be tied to a tree and beaten up after they were caught in a compromising position on Wednesday when the husband of the woman was away. “Five men have been made accused in the first FIR, lodged on the statement of the woman. The other FIR was lodged against the woman and her paramour by her husband,” he said. Her lover had come to Gopinathpur from Sitamarhi after receiving her phone call, the SHO quoted the woman as saying..

Source: Hindustan Times June 30, 2017 06:45 UTC