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Indian village council orders gang-rape of woman as punishment
KOLKATA: A woman has been gang-raped by 12 men on the orders of a village council in eastern India as punishment for apparently having an affair.
The council ordered the horrific penalty to be carried out in a village in West Bengal state on Tuesday night after the 20-year-old woman was discovered with a man from another community, a senior officer said on Thursday.
Police have arrested 12 people over the attack which was meted out after the woman’s parents said they could not pay the fine of 25,000 rupees ($459) imposed by the council for having the affair.
‘We have so far arrested 12 people in connection with the incident,’ district police superintendent C. Sudhakar told AFP.
The incident in India took place in Subalpur village, about 240 kilometres west of state capital Kolkata, after the couple were discovered on Monday.
‘The head of the village council held an urgent meeting in the village square on Tuesday when the girl and her lover were called,’ Sudhakar said.
‘The girl and her lover were tied to two separate trees and fined 25,000 rupees each as a fine for having an affair,’ he said.
‘As the parents of the girl, who were also present at the meeting, expressed their inability to pay the fine, the head of the village council ordered that she should be raped by the villagers as punishment,’ he said.
The man apparently involved with the girl was freed after he agreed to pay the fine within a week, he said.
The woman was recovering from the attack in a hospital.
The attack puts India’s record on sexual violence back into the spotlight after national outrage over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012.
The incident also echoes an attack on a woman in neighbouring Pakistan in 2002 on orders of a village council to avenge her 12-year-old brother’s alleged impropriety with a woman from a rival clan.
Earlier this month, a Danish woman was allegedly gang-raped and robbed in the capital after she became lost on her way back to her hotel.
Indian village council orders gang-rape of woman as punishment – The Express Tribune
KOLKATA: A woman has been gang-raped by 12 men on the orders of a village council in eastern India as punishment for apparently having an affair.
The council ordered the horrific penalty to be carried out in a village in West Bengal state on Tuesday night after the 20-year-old woman was discovered with a man from another community, a senior officer said on Thursday.
Police have arrested 12 people over the attack which was meted out after the woman’s parents said they could not pay the fine of 25,000 rupees ($459) imposed by the council for having the affair.
‘We have so far arrested 12 people in connection with the incident,’ district police superintendent C. Sudhakar told AFP.
The incident in India took place in Subalpur village, about 240 kilometres west of state capital Kolkata, after the couple were discovered on Monday.
‘The head of the village council held an urgent meeting in the village square on Tuesday when the girl and her lover were called,’ Sudhakar said.
‘The girl and her lover were tied to two separate trees and fined 25,000 rupees each as a fine for having an affair,’ he said.
‘As the parents of the girl, who were also present at the meeting, expressed their inability to pay the fine, the head of the village council ordered that she should be raped by the villagers as punishment,’ he said.
The man apparently involved with the girl was freed after he agreed to pay the fine within a week, he said.
The woman was recovering from the attack in a hospital.
The attack puts India’s record on sexual violence back into the spotlight after national outrage over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012.
The incident also echoes an attack on a woman in neighbouring Pakistan in 2002 on orders of a village council to avenge her 12-year-old brother’s alleged impropriety with a woman from a rival clan.
Earlier this month, a Danish woman was allegedly gang-raped and robbed in the capital after she became lost on her way back to her hotel.
Indian village council orders gang-rape of woman as punishment – The Express Tribune
