rajkot a 27yearold man and his family have been forced to wander for shelter after being cast out of town by the patidar community in bhachau of kutch districtthe man bharat patel drew the ire of his chovisi kutch vagad leuva patel community leaders due to his relationship with a 25yearold divorced woman from the same caste the woman who was married in mumbai had an affair going with patel she also got divorce from her husband so that she could marry him in the meantime patel also got a job in mumbaitheir relationship however did not go down well with the womans family as well as the community leaders on thursday patels family approached police after his grandmother was allegedly beaten up by the girls relatives an fir was also lodged in this connection at bhachau police stationpatel and the woman had eloped and lived at some unknown place for the last three months however he was forced to return after the harassment of his family didnt cease bharat has left the village in fear of the girls familyhis brother dalsukh told toi the girls family asked us to pay rs 51000 to the community on the grounds that their relationship is against their tradition we are farm labourers and it is impossible for us to cough up such a large amount when we refused to pay they attacked us bharats father hira stated in an application to bhachau police we have been ousted from chovisi kutch vagad levuva patel community and there is a threat to our lives my son wanted to marry the woman from the same community this is being bitterly opposed by her family and they have warned us to leave the town immediately he also alleged that the small towns people were being forced not to employ them and had discontinued their partnership in a vegetable farm at present the family members have put up at the residences of their relatives in various villages of kutch