BHOPAL: Two days after a woman committed suicide following community panchayat diktat in Tikamgarh, seven villagers have been charged with abetment of suicide. All of them are on the run.Pappu Pal, Dhani Ram, Babu, Channoo, Bhagirath, Jasrath and Ramprashad Pal have been booked under section 306 of the IPC. Harassed and insulted by a community panchayat diktat, ostracising her and slapping a fine of Rs 3,000, Sakhi Bai had committed suicide at Kari village in Tikamgarh on Monday. The panchayat had ‘punished’ the woman for her alleged illicit relations with a dalit man. Among other things she was also asked to drink cow dung mixed with Ganga jal (water of river Ganges), said Maduresh Pachauri, SHO of Dehat police station in Tikamgarh. She was also asked to visit a temple, 15km from her house, prostrating all the way to the shrine and return.The panchayat also asked her to host a feast for its members. Chicken was being cooked and panchayat members were drinking at her house on Monday night when Sakhi, 35, went inside her room and hanged herself. More than 20 community heads from other villages were present there at the time of the incident.On Wednesday, villagers assembled and ostracised all the seven members, who had ostracised her, from the community for 12 years. Pachauri said, “Investigations revealed that the panchayat members had punished the woman, forcing her to commit suicide.” He said all of them would be arrested soon.