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A man and woman from different communities were brutally thrashed with pipes and rods by a group of 17 people in Belagavi, Karnataka, on Saturday for gathering together near a lake. This was an alarming example of moral policing. It happens that the victims are cousins.

When they went together to apply for the state government's program, they were attacked for hours on end until their families intervened to save them.

According to police, the accused were members of a minority community; nine of them have already been taken into custody. They claimed that two of them were juveniles.

Around 1:30 PM on Saturday, the victims were seated close to Killa Lake in Belagavi when a group of about eight people approached them and began requesting their names. According to the police, they began questioning him about why he was sitting next to the woman after discovering that their religions were different.

The complaint stated that the man was mistreated by the goons, who even attempted to strangle him. Later, more people joined the group, and according to the complaint, they dragged the cousins into a room where they viciously beat the man for hours. It stated that they had beaten him until 6:30 PM.

Police sources also state that the woman was attacked.

The man claimed that in addition to taking their cell phones, the gang also stole money from them.

"They asked why people from different communities were sitting together. I told them she was my own aunt's daughter. They took our phones. They took ₹ 7,000 cash from us."