Gujarat: Man tied to pole, thrashed in Aravalli

PALANPUR: A 20-year-old man was tied to a pole and mercilessly thrashed by family members of a girl after her body was found from a well in a village of Aravalli district’s Bayad taluka on Friday.
Tension prevailed in the Pagiya Na Muvada village after the woman Minisha Solanki’s body was fished out from a well near her house at around 7am. Police officials said that Minisha and the victim Sawan Solanki were in love, but her parents had decided to get her married elsewhere.Her betrothal ceremony was also done recently and the preparations for the wedding were afoot.
On Thursday night, Minisha went missing from her house. Soon after her body was found, incensed family members of Minisha barged into Sawan’s house, dragged him outside and tied him with a pole. They brutally beat him up, holding him responsible for her death.
Meanwhile, a police team led by deputy superintendent of police Bharat Basiya rushed to the village after being informed by Sawan’s father on the phone. However, the arrival of police and their attempts to rescue Sawan angered the villagers further and some of them even tried to attack the cops.
“We had to fire three rounds in the air to disperse the violent crowd and save the boy from further thrashing,” said Sanjay Kharat, Aravalli district superintendent of police (DSP).
He was rushed to a hospital in Bayad town, where his condition is said to be out of anger. “Sawan told us that Minisha had come to his house at around 11pm on Thursday and stayed there till 4am after which he dropped her to her house,” Kharat told TOI.
Patrolling has been intensified in the village to avoid any escalation of tension.