Police say the village council had fined the mother for violating a local tradition.
Nicola Maasdam, chair of Great Coates Village Council, said residents will be in "shock" about what has happened.
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Meanwhile the authorities are tackling a fresh security crisis due to attacks on elected village council heads known as sarpanchs.
The most highly publicised is the case of Mukhtar Mai, 33, who was raped in Punjab province in 2002, allegedly on the order of a village council.
But just as India is realizing these challenges, it also already is responding, including appointing a climate change coordinator to each village council (and there are hundreds of thousands of villages in India).
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As a result of poverty and lack of education at village level, some people thought, he said, that they could divorce a spouse on the authority of the village council or even by rejecting their wife and sending her back to her family's home.
Bekomba asks the Balue village chiefs and council of elders to come together to review this practice.
The Syiem is also obliged to act with the consent of his darbar, or council of village elders and priests.
More solutions are needed to prevent future flooding of the north Devon village of Braunton, the council and local businesses say.
Saera Carter, of Stoke Poges Parish Council, said the village did not have the adequate infrastructure.
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People in Parracombe said they have had "very little help" from the council in making their village accessible.
Plans for a wind turbine "taller than Big Ben" near a Buckinghamshire village have been rejected by the council.
An arranged marriage takes Ms Ali's heroine, Nazneen, from a village in Bangladesh to a gloomy council estate in east London.
The council said each town or village had different needs and it would design a plan tailored to each area.
He said villagers offered ideas including a visitor centre and information boards, and that his project tied in with council plans to move the village school.
The bombing took place in Al-Bou Mohammed, a Sunni village dominated by the American-backed Awakening Council movement in Iraq's northeastern Diyala province.
Alan Searle is the chairman of Stogursey Parish Council and has lived in the village since 1960, when construction began for Hinkley A and B.
An application to build 54 homes in a Gwynedd village is being opposed by the local community council, which says the area would be over-developed.
In the village of Holybourne, near Alton, the council has adapted a toilet in a pub for use by the handicapped because of the presence, across the road, of a disabled facility.
The couple were members of the local over-60s group and the Haile Parochial Church Council, and were heavily involved in village life.
Plans to build a new estate in a Worcestershire village have been put on hold after a district council submitted a legal objection.
One person on our list, Sir Richard Knowles, the leader of Birmingham City Council, worked his way up from village schools in Kent via the Workers' Educational Association and technical school.
This was followed by the High Court review in 2011, which overturned the county council's decision, arguing that village green status was incompatible with the statutory purpose for which the land was held.
Council chairwoman Sarah Dawson said parking on the village green was "against the law".
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Local women, often illiterate, have taken a keen interest in bathroom construction, said Roshni Devi, the council chief in Haryana's Kothal Khurd village.
John Skidmore, head of street scene services at the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, said five pumps were in the village attempting to move away excess water.
Every year the council turn down appeals from parents in our village for bus places for the children because the distance is less than three miles, we await a similar outcome to our appeal.
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The county council agreed to register the sandy beach as a village green following a planning inquiry in July 2010.
It told the story of a woman accused of being a "soul eater" and subjected to trial by a council of elders after a child died in her village.
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The Northumberland Theatre Company, which takes plays to village halls and community centres, recently lost its regular Arts Council funding and said it faced an "uncertain long-term future" after being turned down for the touring money.
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