A woman was allegedly tied to a tree and publicly humiliated by villagers in Narayanapuram of Chittoor district, following a dispute over unpaid loans, said police on Monday.
Sirisha (29), wife of Thimmarayappa had returned from Bengaluru on Monday to collect her children’s Transfer Certificates (TC) from their school when locals confronted her about the money borrowed by her husband.
“Sirisha was allegedly tied to a tree by the locals and was asked to call her husband to repay the money and her daughter hit a local which escalated the situation,” Kuppam DSP B Parthasarathi told PTI. According to police, the couple owed around Rs 80,000 to a villager named Munikannappa and also some unspecified amount to local organisations.