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| Indian Muslim girl tied to tree, flogged ‘for falling in love with Hindu boy’ |
| 2018-10-07 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Moslem girl was tied to a tree and flogged mercilessly by a group of villagers in India’s Bihar state earlier this week for eloping with a Hindu boy. The maiden of tender years, daughter of Mohammad Farid Ansari from southern Bihar’s Nawada district, had fallen in love with Rupesh Kumar, son of Arjun Rajvanshi, while both were studying in a local government school. Reports said when the girl’s parents came to know about these affairs, they stopped her going to school and also warned against meeting the youth from other religion but she continued meeting the boy. On September 30, she finally eloped with her boyfriend, much against the wishes of her family. After three days of extensive searches, she was recovered from a neighbouring village on Thursday although the boy expeditiously departed at a goodly pace. Subsequently, her family members brought the girl along to their Jogia-Maran village which was soon followed by a hurried-convened village court. The court found the matter too serious and ordered for thrashing the girl in public, witnesses said. Soon the girl was tied to a tree and badly thrashed by local villagers until she fell unconscious. She remained tied for about five hours before the local police could reach the spot and rescued her. "I love the boy and will marry him come what may. I am ready for any punishment," she told the media. She said she is an adult and can well decide about her future. "I don’t believe in castes or religions. I am 19-year-old and can well decide whom I should marry, whom I should not," she asserted. The police are investigating the case. "We have started the paperwork but haven't done much else in this regard and raids are on to arrest the accused persons," local sub-divisional police officer Sanjay Kumar said on Saturday. The girl’s father said he wanted to marry his daughter to a suitable boy from their own community but she slipped out of the home with some excuses when there was no power at night and bravely ran away. ’Love’ is still a taboo in conservative Bihar, and quite many who have defied the existing social order have paid with their lives, banished from their villages, imposed heavy fine or served other crude punishment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It's like a Rogers & Hammerstein musical, but with torture. |
| Posted by: Choter Lumumba4779 2018-10-07 20:42 |
| #1 Primatives. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-07 05:10 |