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Police have arrested 13 people after a young woman was gang-raped in a brutal punishment allegedly handed down by tribal elders after she was found to have an intimate relationship with a man from a different community.
The 20-year-old unmarried victim admitted being involved with a man outside her insular community in West Bengal. Her punishment was decided by the salishi sabha, the eastern state’s caste-based village court system, which is known for issuing stern punishments for moral offences. The local judiciaries exert great influence throughout much of rural India, particularly in the north, despite attempts by the Indian Supreme Court to limit their authority.
Police said the punishment was levelled after the woman’s parents said she was too poor to pay a fine of 25,000 rupees (£243). She was held captive for more than 12 hours and then tied to a tree, with her male companion, before the brutal assault began in the village of Subalpur, 149 miles west of Calcutta. She was later admitted to hospital, where her condition was said to be critical but stable. [The Times, extract].
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The 20-year-old unmarried victim admitted being involved with a man outside her insular community in West Bengal. Her punishment was decided by the salishi sabha, the eastern state’s caste-based village court system, which is known for issuing stern punishments for moral offences. The local judiciaries exert great influence throughout much of rural India, particularly in the north, despite attempts by the Indian Supreme Court to limit their authority.
Police said the punishment was levelled after the woman’s parents said she was too poor to pay a fine of 25,000 rupees (£243). She was held captive for more than 12 hours and then tied to a tree, with her male companion, before the brutal assault began in the village of Subalpur, 149 miles west of Calcutta. She was later admitted to hospital, where her condition was said to be critical but stable. [The Times, extract].
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Always difficult this sort of thing. To us, here in the West, this seems totally unacceptable and barbaric but in certain areas of the world it would be considered just.
It is there way, we should not try to impose our way on them, we have done that far to much in the past and it has come back to haunt us. Encourage the Indian Government perhaps (and it looks like they would like to address it) and above all stamp it out if immigrants try to bring it to our shores, otherwise leave it alone to evolve.
It is there way, we should not try to impose our way on them, we have done that far to much in the past and it has come back to haunt us. Encourage the Indian Government perhaps (and it looks like they would like to address it) and above all stamp it out if immigrants try to bring it to our shores, otherwise leave it alone to evolve.
It's not considered 'just' in India either!!!
Look at the coverage by the Times of India on the uproar this has caused
http:// timesof india.i ndiatim es.com/ videos/ news/Up roar-ov er-girl s-gang- rape-by -kangar oo-cour t-membe rs/vide oshow/2 9259301 .cms
Sexual Violence is a *big* issue in India at the moment and this has all the elements to put a match to a tinderbox !
Look at the coverage by the Times of India on the uproar this has caused
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Sexual Violence is a *big* issue in India at the moment and this has all the elements to put a match to a tinderbox !
This is a dreadful story. Nothing we ourselves can do about it, though.
I heard the other day tha a girl was raped, and that the punishment meted out to the rapist was that he had to marry the girl, to "legitimatise" the sexual attack. How ghastly for the girl - what a dreadful situation, to be tied for life to your rapist.
I heard the other day tha a girl was raped, and that the punishment meted out to the rapist was that he had to marry the girl, to "legitimatise" the sexual attack. How ghastly for the girl - what a dreadful situation, to be tied for life to your rapist.
boxy, one of those stories was featured in a documentary some months ago, the man raped her, then because of the shame of it, her family decided she must marry the man, even though i believe he already had a wife. she bore a child, which the man has turned against the woman, by belittling her and her looks and so on, her life as one would expect is hell. I could forgive no one in this, except the poor lone woman who has done nothing wrong, i would cut off his gonads and serve them to a goat.
one of the things that has come out of these documentaries, and indeed reports is how rife it is, rape and subjugation of women, in India, where it is still very much a patriarchal society, we may not be superior i grant you, but at least we have ditched much of the vile behaviour that was supposedly acceptable a few years ago. Now we have laws to back it up, change takes time, and some places don't look like they will any day soon.
Afghanistan is going backwards if anything, and once the soldiers all leave the Taliban will take up residence once more, even the ordinary Afghani fear this happening.
Afghanistan is going backwards if anything, and once the soldiers all leave the Taliban will take up residence once more, even the ordinary Afghani fear this happening.
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