A 25-year-old man was allegedly stripped and beaten up on the order of a kangaroo court in Kendarapara district as punishment for eloping with a woman of a financially influential family, police said today. A group of around 12 people, including the sarpanch of Talchua gram panchayat, ordered the "punishment" yesterday which was carried out by four-five villagers, they said.

The episode was video-graphed and uploaded on social media. It has gone viral. After the two eloped around a week ago, the family members of the woman somehow found out her whereabouts and brought her home at Bhetka village, the police said.