India's Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into the alleged gang rape of a young woman on the orders of a village council.
The woman told police that the rape by people she "knew as neighbours, as uncles and brothers" carried out the attack in West Bengal as punishment for her falling in love with a man from a different ethnic group.
Thirteen suspects, including the head of the village council, have already been arrested.
Other local men were reported to have fled, fearing arrest. Women and children left behind in the village were reluctant to talk about the events.
Police near the village of Subalpur, about five hours drive from the state capital Kolkata, said locals tried to prevent the alleged victim from reporting her ordeal by surrounding her house and threatening her with further violence.
"Members of the village council threatened her with dire consequences if she lodged a complaint with the police," police officer Kazi Mohammad Hossain said.
"The villagers surrounded her house but on Wednesday afternoon she managed to escape and came to the police station to file the complaint.
"She was limping and bleeding when she came to the police station."
The woman was reportedly raped through the night Some neighbours described the victim as a charming woman and said she planned to marry her partner, who is Muslim.
The rape has rekindled the outrage in India over the treatment of women and brought fresh scrutiny to the role of village councils, which are common in rural India.
The councils decide on social norms in the village, and in some cases they dictate the way women can dress or who they can marry.
Those who flout the councils risk being ostracised.
Relationships remain an extremely sensitive subject in rural areas, where pre-marital sex is taboo and marriages are usually arranged within the same community, caste or religious group.
Punishments outside of India's law and justice system are common with regular reports of women being forced to parade naked or being flogged publicly for "disobeying" local laws.
The gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in December 2012 highlighted the issue of violence against women in India.
Unprecedented protests took place in the national capital and across the nation, and the government brought in new laws to protect women.
According to India's National Crime Records Bureau, rape is the singular fastest-growing crime in India.
From 1971 to 2012 the number of reports has grown by 900%. The conviction rate is just 1%.
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