>>The 20-year-old is
brutally violated as 'punishment' for a love affair
A 20-year-old woman is lying in critical condition in
hospital in the Indian state of West Bengal after she was allegedly gang-raped
by at least a dozen men on the orders of a “salishi sabha” — a
traditional village tribunal — in the state’s Birbhum district.
Details of the story as reported by Times.com said that the
villagers convened the makeshift tribunal after spotting the young woman with a
lover. They tied them to a tree and fined the couple 50,000 rupees (around
$800). The headman of the tribunal allegedly ordered the rape when the woman’s
family refused or were unable to pay the fine.
He has now been arrested along with the 12 other men.
Four years ago, a teenage girl
in the same area was forced by villagers to walk naked through four villages
for having an affair.
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