... A Scheduled Caste woman and her alleged lover were publicly humiliated ... on the directions of the Panchayat. Their heads ... were tonsured and their faces painted black. Then they were taken out in a procession ..

The Panchayat of Scheduled Caste community was summoned to decide their fate ...

Senior residents of the village supported the verdict of the Panchayat ...

(Source: S. Raju in The Hindustan Times, 10 October, 1999)