Can you provide some insight on why distant relatives living in other cities would need to be jailed for this? I can't even think of a way this could be justified for the law when it was created initially.
There is nothing in the law that states that. However, it does say that all of the accused are to be jailed and produced before a magistrate for hearing and bail.
So women would simply provide a list of accused, and those living outside the home were purported to have directed her husband and in-laws over phone, linking them to her harrassment.
