Minor girl tonsured and paraded with blackened face by village elders in Bihar after being found tal

[niyad]

Indian girl tonsured for 'speaking to friend'

Minor girl tonsured and paraded with blackened face by village elders in Bihar after being found talking to boyfriend.


The police have arrested six people so far for Tuesday's assault on the girl [Nand Kishor Singh]

A girl in the eastern Indian state of Bihar was tonsured and paraded after her face was blackened by village elders as punishment for talking to her boyfriend. The police have arrested six people after the incident on Tuesday in Kadwa Tola village of Purnea district, about 300km from the provincial capital, Patna.

The 14-year-old girl, an orphan, lives in the village with her grandparents. Her grandfather is a cycle-rickshaw puller. According to the girl's complaint to the police, the village court ordered the punishment after she was caught talking to her boyfriend.

The girl belongs to the Dalit ("oppressed&quot community, whose members often face discrimination in India's caste-ridden society."They tied us and kept us in a room for whole night and next day the village court slapped the judgement," the girl told Al Jazeera.

The villagers imposed fines of Rs12,000 ($195) on both the boy and the girl for their "act of indiscretion".
"But they let the boy go when his family promised to pay the amount and since we are poor, my family was unable to pay the fine and they meted extreme humiliation to me," she said. "They first shaved my head and then blackened my face with ash and paraded me in the village," she said.

A local police official said that some villagers had caught the girl talking to the boy at the Gulab Bagh market yard while returning from her school.



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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2014/03/indian-girl-tonsured-speaking-friend-201431462552469982.html

[Coventina]

1. Is this a typical week in India, or have they gone nuts?

Good Goddess!!!

[hifiguy]

5. You took the words out of my mouth.

[Fred Sanders]

7. Indians are saying the same thing about the last week of politics and gun violence in the U.S.A! "Have Americans gone nuts?"

[Coventina]

8. You are so adorably reliable!

[cali]

17. gad, and you are one of the first to screech sexism at any

criticism of Clinton. This has shit all to do gun violence or U.S. politics.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. poor girl

[arcane1]

3. I'm scared to lookup what "tonsured" means

[Coventina]

4. They shaved her head.

There are different types of tonsures.
The most familiar here in the West is the circular bald spot shaved into monks' heads.

Hopefully, her hair will grow back in time, unless they took chunks of her scalp in the process.

[arcane1]

11. Well, that's certainly not as bad as I feared, though still awful :(

[Rex]

9. Well those big men sure taught the kids a new lesson!

Just remember, people grow old and the young grow up.

[hifiguy]

10. Another troll bites the dust.

They aren't making trolls any smarter, are they?

[niyad]

15. gee, I miss all the fun. was away from my computer most of the weekend.

[Syzygy321]

13. It's horrible.

But I am a little surprised and glad that she dared to go to a police station and was listened to and that six people were arrested.

That sounds like progress?

I cynically suspect that for every case that makes western news (or even India news), five hundred females suffer similar abuses - and fifty million females live in fear of being next.

[niyad]

14. sadly, I fear that you are quite correct.

[niyad]

16. . . .