A girl was allegedly tonsured and ostracised on the orders of a kangaroo court docket in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district after getting right into a quarrel together with her husband, police sources mentioned. She was additionally allegedly made to organise a feast for village residents as a part of her punishment.
4 individuals, together with the lady’s husband, have been arrested on Sunday. Police mentioned the incident passed off earlier this month.
Police mentioned the lady had a quarrel together with her husband over some minor challenge on August 9. The husband accused her of by chance hitting him through the quarrel, which is taken into account a “critical crime” of their village, police sources mentioned. The husband then complained to others within the village in regards to the incident, and a kangaroo court docket was convened for a “trial” of the lady. The court docket allegedly ordered that the lady be ostracised and tonsured, and directed her to offer a feast of mutton to the folks of the village.
“On listening to in regards to the incident, one of many lady’s sons, who’s working as a tailor at Tirupur in Tamil Nadu, got here to the village on August 21 and lodged a criticism earlier than the police on Saturday, searching for mandatory authorized motion,” Laikera inspector-in-charge Dilip Behera instructed The Indian Express.
It was additionally alleged within the criticism that these within the kangaroo court docket used obscene language towards the lady and humiliated her throughout her “trial” for allegedly hitting her husband.
“Through the probe, we discovered that the husband and three different senior villagers have been concerned within the incident, and we subsequently arrested them,” Behera mentioned. Aside from the husband, the others arrested have been recognized as Nabin Ping, Satrughan Kisan, and Susanta Ping.
The accused have been charged below sections 133 (assault or use of prison pressure with intent to dishonour an individual), 296 (obscene acts), 351 (prison intimidation), 356 (defamation), 74 (assault or use of prison pressure on lady to outrage her modesty), and 85 (cruelty by a husband or relative of a girl) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
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