The man belongs to the Kuruba community, while the woman hails from the Lingayat community, the police said.
The police constable said that he was attacked by Santhosh and seven others. (Representational image/Creative Commons)
A 51-year-old man was assaulted after his son eloped with a woman in the Devanagere district of Karnataka and married her, in an incident reminiscent of a 40-year-old Belagavi woman’s case, who was attacked and paraded naked for her son’s elopement,
The Melebennur police have registered and arrested two people in the latest incident, The accused have been identified as Mahadeva and Danana Gowda, the eloped woman’s brother and uncle, respectively.
The police said while the man belonged to the Kuruba caste, the woman hailed from the Lingayat community, and both lived at Kamalapura village in Harihara taluk.
They had apparently been in a relationship for the past few years. The young lovers eloped around 15 days ago after her parents had opposed her affair.
Investigators said the couple got married at a temple outside the Davanagere, and even got it registered at a sub-registrar’s office.
After these developments, around five to six relatives of the woman barged into the man’s house and attacked his father, Basappa, a farmer. They accused him of assisting the young couple to flee.
A senior police officer told South First that Mahadeva and Danana Gowda stripped the man inside the house.
Basappa reportedly the police he was unaware of his son’s whereabouts and even filed a police complaint after he had gone missing around 15 days ago.
“Both the man and woman are majors and they are mature enough to make their own decisions. We have registered an assault case based on Basappa’s complaint and arrested two persons. We are searching for the other people involved in the incident and further investigations are underway,” the officer said.
It may be recalled that on 11 December, a home-alone woman in Belagavi was assaulted after her son had eloped with a woman, sparking countrywide outrage.
In Chikkaballapura, a man and his wife were grievously injured in an assault by a group of people after the couple’s son had eloped and married his lover from the same village in the Gudibande taluk in the district.
In Haveri, a man was allegedly abducted and beaten up at Chalageri village in Ranebennur taluk after his brother-in-law had eloped with a woman from the same village. The woman’s family had fixed her wedding for 22 December against her wish. Her boyfriend and his family had also approached the woman’s family seeking her hand in marriage.
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