Hisar, Feb 2 (IANS) In another gotra (clan) row, Khanda village panchayat (council) in this Haryana district Tuesday directed a newly-wed couple to stay away from the village periphery as they were not permitted to marry as per village customs.

The panchayat observed that no boy of Khangwal gotra, who lives in Khanda village, can marry a girl of Nagar gotra.

'We have taken a decision to bar the entry of this newly-wed couple in the village. Many girls of Nagar gotra already live in our village so we consider them our daughters,' said panchayat chief Rati Ram Nagar here Tuesday.

Ravi Khanagwal (of Khangwal gotra), a resident of Khanga village had married Kavita (of Nagar gotra), a native of Nangthala village here Sunday evening.

Rati Ram added: 'We have also given strict instructions that no boy from this village will marry a Nagar girl in future. Even the uncle of the groom (Ravi) has apologized before the panchayat for solemnizing his nephew's marriage to a Nagar girl.'

'Now the couple cannot enter the periphery of our village,' he pointed out.

The trouble started on the marriage day Sunday when some villagers from Ravi's village reached the wedding venue and created ruckus. They threatened both the boy and girl and told them not to enter the village.

Following this, family members of the bride approached the local police and a case was booked against nearly dozen people.

The couple was so horrified with the threats that in place of going to village Khanda they went to the house of the groom's sister at Baroda village in Sonepat district.

This incident has happened close on the heels of another last week where a village panchayat in Rohtak district directed a married couple to start staying as brother and sister as they were from the same gotra.