meerut after a minor allegedly hanged herself to death the panchayat in her village gathered summoned a man believed to have been blackmailing her and allowed him to be beaten up by members of her family before expelling him from the village for five yearslast friday the girl 16 was found hanging at her house in bijnors gazipur village a police source said she had been involved with a boy from the village but no one knew about their relationship after the girls last rites had been performed the family found a call recording on her phone in that another boy tinku kashyap 18 was heard allegedly blackmailing her with the threat that he would tell everyone she was in a relationship while she kept pleading that she is not that kind of girl the family took the recording to the village council and a panchayat was convened on monday in a video shot at the panchayat meeting tinku is seen cowering before a group of angry villagers a woman a relative of the girl who died is egged on by others to thrash him she comes forward tears streaming down her face slaps him beats him up with a slipper and hurls abuses at him before leaving the video cuts off at this point after this tinku was told he had to leave the village for five years the video went viral on the basis of which we took action we have filed an fir against the five panches said bijnor sp dharamvir singh the youth has been booked under section 306 abetment of suicide of the ipc jeet singh sho of kirathpur police station under whose jurisdiction the incidents occurred the panchayat members have been booked under sections 141 using criminal force 143 unlawful assembly and 503 criminal intimidation of the ipc the youth is on the run