The Court was hearing a suo motu case initiated last month after a 42-year-old woman from a village in Belagavi was publicly stripped and beaten by fellow villagers after her son eloped with a girl from the same village.
The Karnataka High Court condemned the "collective cowardice" shown by villagers who remained mute spectators when a 42-year-old woman from their village in Belagavi was publicly beaten and stripped by fellow villagers