Kolkata: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by 13 men in West Bengal's Birbhum district on the orders of a village kan...
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Kolkata: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by 13 men in West Bengal's Birbhum district on the orders of a village kangaroo court that decided to punish her for her relationship with a boy from a different community.
The incident took place on Monday at a village called Subalpur in Birbhum, after villagers saw the woman's friend at her house. The headman and a few others immediately called a 'court' and demanded 25,000 each from the woman and the man as 'jorimana' or fine
When the woman's family said they couldn't pay, the headman allegedly ordered the gang-rape. She was taken away and allegedly raped through the night before being sent back home the next day. Her friend's brother had reportedly paid the 'fine' and taken him away.
The family sneaked out of the village on Wednesday to file a First Information Report or FIR and take the woman to the hospital, where she is currently in a critical condition.
The woman has named 13 people in the FIR. The police said all the 13 have been arrested.
The incident comes at a time the state's Trinamool Congress government is facing anger over the death of a teenager who was gang-raped twice by the same group of men and set on fire by men known to the rapists, in a district just an hour from Kolkata.
Trinamool MP Derek O' Brien tweeted this morning, "Awoke to terrible news of a young tribal girl gang-raped on Khap orders in Birbhum.10 'beasts' swiftly rounded up.Social malaise; must change."
Four years ago, a teenaged tribal girl was paraded naked on the orders of a similar medieval-style village court in the same district, Birbhum, for her alleged affair with a boy from a different community, sparking a massive outrage in the state.
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