Compiled by DIVYA THERESA RAVI , C.ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
THEY had married for love but apparently that did not sit well with some of their fellow villagers in India’s eastern state of Odisha.
As punishment, the young couple were made to till the land by pulling a manual plough – a task usually done by oxen, Makkal Osai reported.
The bride, who was not named, had married her maternal cousin in a love marriage.
While marriages between cousins are not altogether uncommon in India, the village where the woman lives apparently frowns on the practice.
The villagers tied the newlyweds to the heavy manual plough and forced them to till the padi field, with videos of the incident going viral online.
In the footage, a man can be seen whipping the couple with a cane while they are tied to the plough.
The police have since registered cases against the villagers involved in the incident.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
