Forced to do sit-ups for marrying man of choice, girl loses foetus
An 18-year-old girl, who was two months pregnant, allegedly lost her foetus after she was forced to do sit-ups and thrashed in a West Bengal village's kangaroo court. She was being punished for bringing disrepute to the village by having an affair and marrying a man of her choice. "We accepted [the marriage]...but village elders couldn't," the girl's mother said.