Stuge Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 A 20-year-old tribal woman was allegedly gang-raped in a West Bengal village on the orders of a salishi sabha, the state’s equivalent of khap panchayats (feared for dispensing kangaroo court-style justice), the police said on Wednesday. The police suspect as many as 12 persons raped the young woman, who herself “lost count†during the brutality she endured on Tuesday at Subalpur village in Birbhum, about 180 km from Kolkata. News of the vicious gang rape in Birbhum, the home district of President Pranab Mukherjee, shook the state, which is already reeling under a series of sex crimes against women. Falling in love with a man from outside her community and then failing to cough up Rs. 50,000 fine imposed by the salishi sabha led to the woman being humiliated with the sexual assault, said a police official. The woman underwent medical test at a hospital on Wednesday morning and is admitted there. “According to the woman, the salishi sabha summoned her and her beloved on Monday and detained them through the day and night. After her family said they could not pay the fine, the salishi sabha allegedly ordered the mass rape on Tuesday,†said Birbhum superintendent of police C Sudhakar. The police have arrested 11 persons including Sunil Soren, head of the salishi sabha. Soren allegedly participated in the gang rape. One of the suspects is on the run. The woman told the police she was not certain how many men sexually assaulted her. “There were more than five. It could even be 10,†she told journalists who visited her at the hospital. “It’s horrific. They (rapists) are all our neighbours and I call some of them as kaka (uncle) and some others as dada (elder brother) or bhai (brother),†she added. Her family lodged a complaint with the police on Wednesday afternoon following which the police conducted a raid on the village and made the arrests. A section of villagers opposed the police raid, forcing the administration to rush in more personnel. The tribal girl’s plight put the Mamata Banerjee government under the spotlight yet again, barely three days after a fitness centre employee was gang-raped in a moving vehicle in the heart of Kolkata. The fitness centre employee was targeted even as the state grappled with the shocking Madhyamgram rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl towards the end of 2013. The minor was gang-raped twice, her family hounded out of her home and then she was set ablaze at their new residence. The ruling Trinamool Congress has been battling a series of sex crimes against women over the past two years. West Bengal topped states in crimes against women in 2011 and 2012, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau. http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/20-yr-old-tribal-girl-gang-raped-by-12-men-on-khap-orders-in-bengal/article1-1175776.aspx
ganeshran Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Woman gangraped on panchayat orders in WB WTF is wrong with these panchayats :facepalm: A 20-year-old tribal woman was allegedly gangraped at Labhpur in Birbhum district by five persons apparently objecting to her relationship with a man from a different community. Police said the woman was in a very critical condition at Suri Hospital and prima facie she had been sexually assaulted by five people on Tuesday night who were later arrested. The woman’s family filed a complaint with the Labhpur police station that the incident happened following a meeting by her community leaders who decided to met out the “punishment†for her “crime†of being in love with someone outside her caste. Refusing to divulge any details, ASP Prashanta Chowdhury said, “Prima facie, she was gangraped and we have rounded up five persons. No more details.†The youth, with whom the girl reportedly had a love affair, has also been arrested apart from the five people from her village who were slapped with charges of gangrape and causing grievous injury to a woman, police sources said. The charges against the youth are not clear. A section of residents told the media the incident took place after a kangaroo court of community leaders gave the shocking “verdict†but this could not be officially confirmed. A teenaged tribal girl was paraded naked in the district four years ago for the same reason, which had sparked an outrage in the State and women’s organisations were up in arms. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/woman-gangraped-on-community-panchayat-orders-in-west-bengal/article5608467.ece?homepage=true
DomainK Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Once again, we see how deep rooted this mentality is in our country. If it was on the orders of the Panchayat, the whole village or a good part of it. agrees with the philosophy.
Sachin=GOD Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 the entire salishi sabha should be booked in this case.
surajmal Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 When one comes across news like this, one understands that only an absolutely stupid and ignorant race of people can continually vote for a corrupt and bankrupt party like congress.
BeautifulGame Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 The barbaric face of our religion. But of course everyone would just criticize the Panchayat but will ignore the root cause of these issues .
DomainK Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 Effin village needs to live in Bharat, not India.
Muloghonto Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 When one comes across news like this' date=' one understands that only an absolutely stupid and ignorant race of people can continually vote for a corrupt and bankrupt party like congress.[/quote'] Trust a BJP hack like you to put a political slant on this. There are plenty of khaap panchayat people who also vote for BJP. Maybe next time you attend your VHP meeting, you can try telling your kshatriya and brahmin high ranking VHP people how the panchayat system is that of a bunch of illiterate idiots running a kangaroo court with ZERO grounding in notions of law, instead of presenting it as a tradition of hindu india. That maybe we should try to irradicate this leftover from the stone age illiteracy era of India and boost the actual justice system of India,which is thanks to the British.
SLICKR392 Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 “According to the woman, the salishi sabha summoned her and her beloved on Monday and detained them through the day and night. After her family said they could not pay the fine, the salishi sabha allegedly ordered the mass rape on Tuesday,” WTF man? :facepalm:
DomainK Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 We have heard news stories of atrocities by panchayat in the past. Cops usually make arrests and promise proper action. But I never get to read follow ups stories on them. I have never read that a sarpanch or other panch members have been given any kind of punishment for their criminal activities.
StriKe Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 severe punishment should be given and to be shown to all those villages under panchayat system what will happen if they rape.
G_B_ Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 why are these sex crimes taking places in states with strong women leaders? sheila dikshit delhi and now mamata bannerjee? I got to say whats the point of you being in power if you cant even protect your gender in your state
zumi Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 not surprised, bengal has always been a backward state, along with UP and Bihar. The entire north indian stretch from UP to Bengal is full of regressive pigs.
DomainK Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 why are these sex crimes taking places in states with strong women leaders? sheila dikshit delhi and now mamata bannerjee? I got to say whats the point of you being in power if you cant even protect your gender in your state It's not limited just to women leaders. A very high number of domestic violence complaints come from families either headed by a senior woman or with a woman having a strong influence in the family. Mothers in laws, sisters in laws play prominent roles in psychological and physical torture of new brides. I have also witnessed many mothers torture daughters that have supposedly passed the marriageable age. Women play a significant role in suffering of women.
G_B_ Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 then maybe its time that women help out other women. India must be one big paradox. Having powerful women politicians in sonia Gandhi, Mamata, Amma and Maywati. In the UK is currently no woman of note. Its all men dominated. The USA has never had a female president. the same with the banks. all males. Yet India has even powerful women ceos. Why is this such a paradox?
moniker Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 WTF! And why the hell was the boyfriend arrested?
DomainK Posted January 23, 2014 Posted January 23, 2014 WTF! And why the hell was the boyfriend arrested? Because he is a boyfriend. In India, whenever a girl gets into any kind of trouble, the boyfriend gets arrested. Just for the sake of it.
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