A man was served with cruel punishment of having a five kg stone hung from his private parts over having an extramarital affair in Odisha. The incident took place at Chowmukh village under the Baliapal block of Balasore district on Sunday after a local kangaroo court held him guilty, according to a report in The Indian Express.
The captured video went viral on social media. In the circulated video, the accused Bijay Das alias Bapi was forced to strip and then was subjected to the brutal act where a stone was hung from his privates for a couple of hours as a punishment given by the locals.
According to the villagers, Bijay had been seeing a woman, who is the resident of the same village, over a long time for personal work but no one suspected him as he had a wife and two children.
Due to their increase in their meeting frequency in the absence of the woman’s family members, locals had started suspecting him. On Sunday, the villagers caught him red-handed with the woman. They dragged him out of the woman’s house, thrashed him, and tied him to an electric pole. A kangaroo court was then held in the village where a decision to punish the accused man was taken.
The villagers took the law into their hands that ended in the inhumane move. Bijay was later released when some elderly people intervened.
Meanwhile, OIC of Jamkunda outpost Sarada Prashana Muduli had expressed his ignorance about the matter. No complaint has yet been filed at the police station either by the victim or his family members.
