India: 'Nymphomaniac' Stripped Naked, Paraded Around
Bo Raxo
Really demonstrated the differences between cultures. Here, we just
buy 'em a couple of drinks...
Stripping a teenage girl naked and parading her around is pretty
severe, especially in such a conservative society. On the plus side,
it's better than the original plan, which was to burn her as a witch.
So I guess that's progress. They've made it all the way in to the 19th
century!
Bo Raxo
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7242_1269811,00180008.htm
A woman, branded nymphomaniac by a local tantrik, was stripped naked,
tarred, her head shaved and paraded naked on a donkey in Chandpur under
Sarai Aqueel police station of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambhi district.
Known as Shastriji, the tantrik reportedly told his congregation that
17-year-old Usha had an insatiable sexual appetite and had slept with
innumerable men. He said the teenager would continue to bed other men
unless she was burnt alive on the stake for her infractions.
To make matters worse, Shastriji also held Usha responsible for the
murder of a 5-year-old whose body was discovered in a pond some days
ago. Claiming that he had seen the gruesome killing reenacted in a
tumbler of mustard oil, the tantrik convinced everyone of Usha's guilt.
She was subsequently denounced as a witch.
While many of the locals had made up their minds to consign Usha to the
flames, what saved her was dissension from a section of the crowd. As a
compromise, it was decided to publicly humiliate the girl by taking out
a procession in which she would be carried naked. Usha's tormentors
even shelled out money from their own pockets to hire a donkey and go
through with their cruel plan.
Five people have so far been arrested in this connection. The charges
against them include forcing a girl to strip, obscenity at a public
place and assaulting her with canes. Vijay, Amarnath, Rajendra and
Shyam Sunder are among those currently in police custody.
The local populace however hasn't taken kindly to the police action.
Usha, they still believe, is a witch whom they had every right to
attack. Although police say the child most likely drowned since the
post-mortem report shows no external injury marks, no one seems willing
to accept that explanation.
Senior police officials including the Sub-Divisional Magistrate are
camping in the area to diffuse the situation following angry protests
against the five arrests.
Offshore Eddie
"Bo Raxo" <Cheneys...@deathsdoor.com> wrote in message
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> http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7242_1269811,00180008.htm
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> A woman, branded nymphomaniac by a local tantrik, was stripped naked,
> tarred, her head shaved and paraded naked on a donkey in Chandpur under
> Sarai Aqueel police station of Uttar Pradesh's Kaushambhi district.
Interesting how we never hear about punishments meted out to men in these
regions.
Betsy
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I doubt the men are punished for much of anything.
E/C Annie
Betsy wrote:
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> I doubt the men are punished for much of anything.
I have to agree since the Indian state govt is offering to pay cash to
families who have a daughter. annie
Thursday March 10, 12:48 PM
Government pays cash for girls
HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - An Indian state government has offered to
pay 100,000 rupees (1,200 pounds) cash to families who have just one
daughter in a bid to counteract traditional preferences for sons and
balance the sex ratio.
The cash incentive will be paid to the daughters when they reach 20
years of age, provided their parents have had only one child and have
undertaken birth control operations, officials said on Thursday.
The southern state of Andhra Pradesh has a sex ratio of 943 females to
1,000 males. Sex determination tests and female foeticide are common in
small towns and rural areas of the largely farming state.
"I consider it a shame that in our country we ascertain the sex of the
baby before it enters the world," Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y. S.
Rajasekhar Reddy said at a function on the empowerment of woman in the
state capital, Hyderabad.
In India, where millions of couples still hanker for a male child, the
overall sex ratio is 927 females to 1,000 males, down from 945-to-1,000
more than a decade ago. It has one of the lowest female-to-male ratios
in the world.
Many couples see the boy as growing up to be a bread-winner and
providing for them in their old age, unlike a daughter who will be
married off and become part of her husband's family.
India has banned pre-natal sex testing through an act of parliament but
non-government agencies say the law is basically toothless and sex
determination tests are common.
The Andhra Pradesh government has also appointed India's leading woman
tennis player Sania Mirza -- who is from Andhra Pradesh -- as "state
ambassador of the girl child" as part of its campaign to protect the
female child.
Eighteen-year-old Mirza, the first Indian woman to get into the third
round of a Grand Slam, will feature on billboards with the caption:
"Your daughter may be the next champion".