Puttalam woman given 100 lashes under Sharia law
W.C.B. Fernando-Puttalam Group Correspondent-Monday, October 24, 2016
Four men from Nallandaluwa, Puttalam were arrested for beating a woman 100 times with a coconut frond.
The twenty-five-year-old woman said she had been asked to come to the mosque in Nallandaluwa and beaten by the men, who said she was being punished under Sharia law for infidelity.
The men had accused her of having an affair with a man.
Puttalam Police arrested the four men and produced them before court.
Puttalam District Judge and Magistrate Bandula Abeyratne remanded them today, until November 2.
