Fwd: [indiathinkersnet] Naked parade of women ...Is this becoming our national passtime ?
Venugopalan K M
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Pregnant UP woman beaten up, paraded naked
http://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/pregnant-woman-beaten-paraded-naked-889A group of locals thrashed a pregnant woman and paraded her naked through a village in Uttar Pradesh after she objected to encroachment on her land, police said on Monday.
The incident took place on Sunday evening at Karnawala village in Bijnor district, about 400 km from Lucknow.
Of the four people who were primarily behind the incident, two have been arrested, police said.
"In the incident, the woman suffered a miscarriage. She is undergoing treatment at a hospital," police inspector Rajesh Kumar Gautam told reporters.
According to police, some residents of the village wanted to occupy a plot that belonged to the 25-year-old woman's husband. They started to set up a makeshift establishment on the plot on Sunday.
When the woman, who was alone at home, protested, the encroachers barged into her residence. They hit her with wooden sticks, dragged her by the hair and stripped her, police added.
"Efforts are on to nab the other villagers involved in the incident," said Guatam.
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Son caught with girl, mother paraded naked
Dalit woman paraded half-naked in Uttar Pradesh
June 25th, 2009 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS
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Lucknow, June 25 (IANS) Five
people allegedly thrashed a 40-year-old Dalit woman, chopped her hair and
then paraded her half-naked through an Uttar
Pradesh village alleging that her husband was involved in a theft, police
said Thursday.
"The incident took place Wednesday in Sirsia village of
Kushinagar district where a group of locals ill-treated Barfi Devi alleging that
her husband was involved in a theft," police Inspector Om Prakash Chauhan told
IANS by phone.
"A group of five villagers first tied Devi to a cot and beat her black and blue. Later, the villagers cut her hair and forced her to parade half-naked in different localities of the village," Chauhan said. Kushinagar is about 300 km from state capital Lucknow.
A case has been registered against the five villagers, he added.
"While we arrested two men involved in the incident, the other three are absconding," said Chauhan.
Read more:
Five women stripped, paraded naked in Jharkhand
October 19th, 2009 - 11:18 am ICT by IANS -Ranchi, Oct 19 (IANS) Five women were stripped and paraded
naked in Deoghar district of Jharkhand after being charged of witchcraft, police
said Monday.
Five women, including three widows, were forcibly brought to a
field Sunday in Patharghatia village in Deoghar, about 350 km from state capital
Ranchi. They were stripped and paraded naked and two of them were forced to eat
excreta, police said.
"Sushila Kumahrin, Sagiran Beebi, Hafijan Beebi, Sujan Beebi and Gulnar Beebi were tortured to accept that they were witches and practise black magic. The incident took place at the instruction of a witch doctor. The witch doctor said that these women were practising black magic and were causing problems in the village," a police officer told IANS.
The women were rescued when local government officials and police reached the spot. However, the perpetrators managed to escape.
According to reports, hundreds of people witnessed the incident.
"We have lodged an FIR (First Information Report) against 11 people, including six women. We will soon arrest the perpetrators," the officer added.
Majority of perpetrators were Muslims and four of the five victims belonged to the same community.
In Jharkhand, women are subjected to different forms of torture after being branded witches. There are instances when women have been paraded naked, forced to eat human excreta and even killed.
According to official data, more than 700 people, majority of them women, were killed after being branded witches. The witch doctors manage to escape as people fear black magic if they are named.
1. September 2006, Maharashtra
Surekha
and Priyanka Bhotmange, mother and daughter from Khairlanji were stripped
and paraded naked in public by a mob of 20 men, angry at the women for having
given testimony in a previous case. The mob later assaulted and murdered both.
2. January 2006, Punjab
Darsho, a woman from Jalandhar
was stripped and paraded naked by her neighbors with whom she had
had an altercation about constructing a fence between the properties.
3. April 2008, Jharkhand
Kalawati, a widow from Ranwatand
village, was stripped and paraded naked for having visited the temple of
Kali and putting a red dot on her forehead. Before the parade, the town people
put a garland of shoes around her neck.
4. March 2006, Maharashtra
A 30-year old woman from
Chausala village was stripped, beaten and paraded naked in public.
5. September 2005, Orissa
Six women from Bhubanpati
village were stripped and paraded naked, because their husbands refused to
wash the feet of a bridegroom and his guests.
6. September 2002, Uttar Pradesh
A woman from Pratapgarh,
was stripped and paraded naked by the police and the town
tehsildar, angry at her having lodged a complaint in a land dispute case.
7. June 2006, Madhya Pradesh
Indira Kushwaha, herself
head of the Mahoikala villagewas
stripped and paraded naked, when she refused to fund some of the government
allotted money to a local family.
8. June 2006, Madhya Pradesh
Shyama Tomar, head of a
local village council was stripped in public when she shut off illegal water
connection to a hotel facility.
9. September 2008, Bihar
Bharati Devi, of Kishanganj
village, was stripped and paraded naked in public for not giving up her
claim on a piece of land. The local police chief has told the press that the
woman's story is `bullshit and concocted'. He admitted however, that she had
been `physically tortured and tormented'.
10. December 2006, Bihar
Besra Devi, a 55-year old woman
from Balua Basant village, was stripped and paraded naked as a punishment for having stolen a
few bananas.
11. July 2001, Karnataka
Yerramma of Vanenur village, was
stripped and paraded naked by a local mob, over suspicions of
having helped a local teenager elope with another boy.
12. May 2005, Bihar
Nirmala Devi, 40, of Purnia village,
was stripped, beaten and paraded naked for having refused to
continue doing household chores for her employer.
13. January 2008, Andhra Pradesh
Hemli, 28, of Jalli
Tanda village, was stripped and paraded naked by a mob of 200 who later threw
chilli powder on her naked body. The mob suspected her of having killed her
husband with the help of her lover.
I can go on and cite a dozen more of these just from recent years. The
perpetrators of Khairlanji got death sentences only because they murdered the
women after the insults and the torture. I bet most of the perpetrators in most
of those other cases got away scot-free.
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