Indian Police Arrest Kangaroo Court That Executed Husband In Mixed Marriage

The Howrah News Service out of the Indian state of West Bengal reports that police in the village of Lakshmanpur in Berhampore have arrested three men who acted as a kangaroo court and imposed a death sentence on Sailendra Prasad, a non-Muslim man who married a Muslim woman. Prasad hid his true religion when he married Manera Bibi, but disclosed it later on at a time when he was drunk. Prasad's in-laws, upset at his drinking habits, disclosed the unauthorized mixed marriage to the village's self-styled "judge" who then convened the court that imposed and carried out the sentence.