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| Two Indian sisters to be raped as punishment |
| 2015-08-30 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] Two Indian sisters have been sentenced to be raped and then paraded naked as punishment for their brother running off and, potentially impregnating a married woman. An unelected all-male village council in India has ordered that 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15-year-old sister are raped. The 'sentence' was handed down as punishment after their brother eloped with a married woman. The horrific order was revealed by The petition has gathered considerable support for its demand as 39,116 people signed it thus far. The sisters are from a village in Baghpat district in India. There, on 30 July, an unelected all-male village council (khap panchayat) ordered that they be raped and paraded naked, their faces blackened, as punishment for the actions of their brother. The sisters and their family had already fled the village in May for fear of reprisals for their brother's actions -- he eloped with a married woman from a dominant caste (Jat). Shortly after they left their house was ransacked. Sumit Kumar, another brother of Meenakshi says that members of the Jat caste are powerful members of the village council, 'the Jat decision is final'. His family fears for their lives if they return. Meenakshi has filed a petition with the Supreme Court asking for protection, and her father has lodged a complaint with two national bodies saying that both his family has been harassed not just by the family of the eloped woman (who are of the dominant caste and therefore influential), but also by the police. They are also worried about the safety of the Jat woman, who is now thought to be pregnant with Meenakshi's brother's child. Unelected village councils such as this are widespread in parts of India. More often than not they are made up of older men from dominant castes, who prescribe rules for social behaviour and interaction in villages. The supreme court of India has described them as 'kangaroo courts' and branded their decrees illegal, yet in some states they continue to operate -- and their punishments are carried out. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Perverted justice. The district is 72.11% Hindu and Muslim 26.56%. The Jat caste is made up of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh faiths. I wonder if the caste is tipping towards Islam and Sharia Law? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-30 09:36 |
| #1 What's the matter? They are just practicing their local culture which, as we've been told over and over, is just as good if not better than anything Western Civilization has produced. Oh and this isn't a war on women. "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well! We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks, and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre. Beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours." Gen. Sir Charles Napier |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-08-30 08:24 |