This 20-year-old woman has been left fighting for her life in hospital
today after a kangaroo court in India ordered her to be gang-molested
for having an affair with a youth from another village. The brutal
punishment was allegedly carried out by the very same ‘court’ which
found her guilty in a village near Suri in west Bengal state, 150 miles
from Kolkata.
DailyMail reports that, last Monday afternoon, a
group of tribal men found the woman sitting with her lover, who is from
Chowhatta village and of a different religion.
They dragged the two
of them to a religious place known as a ‘than’ where a makeshift court
was hastily put together on the orders of the tribal chieftan. Police
said that the youth was told to pay a fine of £245 and warned that if he
did not pay, men from the village would ‘have fun with the girl.’
With
no money forthcoming, the woman was allegedly tied to a tree before she
was forced into a shed and molested continuously until Tuesday morning.
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