BIJNOR: A 25-year-old man, his father and brother were allegedly beaten by his girlfriend's family in a panchayat for gifting her a mobile phone, police said today.
A video of the incident, which took place yesterday in the Islamabad village under Badhapur police station, also went viral, said Superintendent of Police Rajkumar.
The video allegedly showed that the man, Vikas, and his family were beaten with slippers and sticks in the panchayat.
He and his brother Arun Kumar were also dangled from the branches of a tree, he said.
Kumar has filed a complaint against Chandra Prakash and six members of his family for beating them, he said.
A case has been registered under IPC sections 147 (rioting) 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), and 506 (criminal intimidation).
Vikas gifted the phone to the 23-year-old woman to talk to her, but the family got to know about it, he added.
The police is probing the matter.