<p>   When a police team tried to rescue the couple, the villagers pelted stones on the policemen also, they added.</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The incident took place at Kolar village near Sarada town in Udaipur, some 400 kilometers from Jaipur.<br />   u00a0</div>  <div>   u00a0</div>  <p class="caption">   <img alt="village woman" src="/imagedata/2012/jul/village-woman.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 435px; " /><br />   Representational picture</p>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;Prakash Meena, 25, had an illicit relationship with a married woman in the village. They had eloped about 10 days ago,&quot; said a police officer.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   The officer said that the villagers located the couple Saturday evening and held a caste council meeting to decide upon the punishment for them having illicit relations.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;In front of the crowd of hundreds of villagers, Prakash and woman were tied to a tree and stripped. They were then beaten up,&quot; said the officer. A police team rescued the couple almost after four hours.</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   u00a0</div>  <div id="cke_pastebin">   &quot;The couple are under police protection. We have registered cases against council members and the villagers and are trying to arrest them,&quot; said the officer.</div>  

The members of a village caste council in Rajasthan's Udaipur district beat and stripped a married woman and her boyfriend publicly after tying them to a tree over their illicit relationship Sunday, police said

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