Court Orders 13 Men To GangRape A Young Girl After She Was Caught Having An Affair[pics]


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-raped 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 raped continuously until Tuesday morning.
Despite her critical condition and clinging to life, the
female victim managed to tell her story to The Times
of India. She told the paper: ‘I had an affair with a
man. We were dragged to a gathering where our
community headman was present. They told me to
pay 50,000 rupees (£490). When I said I couldn’t,
they brutalised me.’ A doctor told the paper that the
young woman was alive ‘only because she is a tough
tribal girl. The woman’s distraught mother said that
‘the crime was committed by our own people.’ She
added: ‘They tortured my daughter and dumped her
home late at night. We were threatened not to go to
police. We tried to go to Bolpur hospital, but they
stopped us.’ The woman’s family were forced to
remain indoors throughout Tuesday, doing their best
to care for their daughter who was bleeding from
severe injuries. According to the Times of India, the
family managed to slip out late on Wednesday
afternoon and took the woman to a health centre,
where doctors said she should be taken immediately
to the nearest hospital. But from that hospital she
was shifted on to Suri hospital in a critical condition
at night. ‘This is when the crime came to light,’ said
police officer Prashanta Chowdhury. ‘She was gang
raped and the details are yet to be investigated.’ The
shocking incident is not the first time that a woman
has been punished for having an affair in the area.
Four years ago a teenage girl was stripped and forced
to walk naked through four villages, during which
hundreds of people molested her and mocked
her.They even filmed her with mobile phones, which
resulted in police moving into the area and making arrest





The girl received a bravery award from Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh and today she lives in a state-run
welfare home.