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

[brer cat]

1. I cannot understand a culture that condones such atrocities.

Earlier we had the account of the Indian girls who were to be raped, stripped and paraded through the village because of the "sins" of their brother. This is way beyond the need to simply control girls and women...it seems to be a compulsion to both torture and humiliate them, and it is a collective effort..."it takes a village" in the worst way.

[awoke_in_2003]

2. If the religious right in this country...

could get away with it, they would act just the same.

[2naSalit]

3. Yup. nt

[niyad]

4. sadly, you are absolutely correct. have been reading the crap coming from the reichwing fundies

for years, and the insane things they propose (death for women who have abortions, who commit adultery, etc) are right on par with this insanity.