Patna, October 5: In a horrific incident, a girl was tied to a tree and thrashed for hours today on a Panchayat's diktat for eloping with a man on September 30 in Bihar’s Nawada district. The father of the girl justified the act. He said that the girl was tied because she was a criminal as she wanted to go with a man from another caste. According to reports, the girl eloped with her boyfriend on September 30 from Rajauli village of Nawada.

The girl was living with her boyfriend in a nearby village, until her parents along with the villagers brought her back forcefully back to Rajauli village. According to a report published in Times Now, a village panchayat was set up, and the decision was taken to punish the victim. The video of the entire incident went viral on social media. In the video, it could be seen that the girl was tied to a tree and thrashed her mercilessly by men and villagers did not stop them. As per reports of local media, the girl fainted many times in between, but this did not deter the men from beating her up. Bihar Disgrace: Six Men Try to Sexually Molest Minor Girl, Onlookers Shoot Video and Upload it Online

Here is the video of the horrific incident:

In a similar case of mob justice in Bihar, in August, a woman was beaten up, stripped and paraded naked today on the streets of Bhojpur district by an angry mob, which suspected her to be involved in the killing of a 19-year-old man. The incident took place under the jurisdiction of Bihiya police station area.

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