Gujarat: Flogged girl was forced to lift lover on shoulders

VADODARA: Chhota Udepur police arrested two more persons in connection with the brutal flogging of a 16-year-old girl as a punishment for eloping with a 20-year-old youth.
On Saturday, police also arrested the youth and booked for abducting the girl by luring her with marriage.
In fact, the girl was not only flogged with wooden sticks by her uncles and other men, but also made to walk in village after mounting the paramour on her frail shoulders. The video of the girl walking through the village, carrying him on her left shoulder, had also surfaced on May 28. Police said that the two persons arrested on Saturday and recorded this draconian punishment and circulated the video.
Police said that this video was also shot on the same day when she was flogged, but it went viral two days later.
“In the flogging video, the youth is not seen, but the other video shows that he is being carried by the girl which is also a form of inhuman punishment given by villagers. Investigation has revealed that the new video was shot before the girl was beaten up near the village school,” said sub-inspector DM Vasava of Rangpur police station. The girl was continuously flogged till the wooden stick of one of the perpetrators broke. She was then dragged by her, slapped, pushed the ground and kicked.