After two youngsters had a love marriage, enraged panchayat passed a resolution banning love marriages hence after. Not content with that, they also pasted an order asking residents to socially boycott the family at several places in the village.
Since then, the panchayat has banned love marriages in the village.
Such bizarre incident has been reported from an interior village in Hisar district of Haryana. It is also seen in some parts of Punjab.
The resolution read, “If any boy or girl gets married of their own accord, the village will socially boycott them. If any family member or village resident keeps ties with such couples, they too shall be boycotted”.
It added that no shopkeeper would be allowed to sell commodities to such persons. Such couples would not be allowed to use the village common land, nor would they be provided with any facility by the panchayat or gurdwara.
The villagers passed the resolution and pasted it on the wall at the local bus stop and in a street about 50 metres from the houses of the couple.
PNN
