India: Young couple killed on orders of village council
A young couple were beaten to death, their bodies hacked to pieces and burned on the orders of a village council in northern India that called their relationship incestuous, news reports said today.
Mahesh, 20 and his girlfriend Gudia, 19, had lived in neighbouring villages near the northern Indian city of Agra, 160 miles south-east of New Delhi, and fled their homes when their relationship was discovered.
