Inter-Faith Cousins Thrashed For Hours By Mob In Karnataka Horror

Karnataka moral policing: The victims were sitting near a lake when a group of around eight approached them and started asking for their names. When they learned that they were from different religions, they assaulted them.

In a shocking case of moral policing, a man and woman from different communities were brutally thrashed with pipes and rods by a group of 17 people for sitting together near a lake in Karnataka's Belagavi Saturday. The victims happen to be cousins.

They were out together to apply for the state government's scheme but were assaulted for hours till their families came to their rescue.

The accused belonged to a minority community, police said, adding nine of them have been arrested. Two of them are juveniles, they said.