Sweta Dhankar, India’s District Police Chief, on
Tuesday, said 30 villagers have been arrested for
allegedly stripping a woman and parading her
naked on a donkey in an Indian village to humiliate
her.

The police officer said in New Delhi that the
Council of Elders in the village in Rajasthan state
ordered the punishment after she was accused of
killing her 45-year-old nephew.

Dhankar said the cause of the man's death was not
clear as his body was cremated before authorities
could examine it, but circumstantial evidence
pointed to suicide.

He said some of the man's relatives later accused
the aunt of killing him.

Dhankar said a large group of villagers dragged the
woman out of her house, stripped her, blackened
her face with charcoal and paraded her through the
village on a donkey.

He said the woman's husband filed a complaint
and police arrested 30 villagers, including nine
relatives of the dead man.
He added that "they are now in police custody and
are being questioned.
"The woman is quite traumatised, at first, we sent
her to a shelter for counselling, later we asked her
to tell the police her own side of the story before
resettling her at her parents' house in another
village.’’

The police chief said it was not uncommon in
Indian villages for women suspected of practicing
witchcraft or having extramarital affairs to be
punished by being stripped and paraded around,
especially in tribal areas.


He said "sometimes, they are humiliated for other
reasons such as unpaid loans and children eloping
with partners from different castes.’’
Dhankar said village councils have no legal powers
in India, but in many communities, they still mete
out such punishments.

Na wah oh
source:BBC

Such disrespect and disdain of women is highly intolorable

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