Monday, September 27, 2010

[ZESTCaste] Dalit woman, son forced to sit on buffalo, paraded

http://www.asianage.com/india/dalit-woman-son-forced-sit-buffalo-paraded-735

Dalit woman, son forced to sit on buffalo, paraded
Sep 27th, 2010 | Correspondent

Lucknow, Sept. 26: A Dalit woman and her son were made to sit on a
buffalo with their faces blackened and were paraded in a village in
Bulandhshahr district on Saturday evening after a local panchayat
found the two guilty of abducting a girl.

Ten persons including a woman and government guard have been arrested
in connection with this incident.

According to police reports, Chandrawati, 45, and her 18-year-old son
Devendra had reportedly given some sedatives to a young woman Chamma,
30, and had handed her over to another man in the same village, about
a month ago.

Chamma, who belongs to the Jat community, returned home two days ago
and named Chandrawati and her son as the culprits.

The panchayat in the Jatdominated Pootha village under Shikarpur
police station area, announced that Chandrawati and her son were
guilty of abducting Chamma. The villagers were ordered by the
panchayat to blacken the faces of the mother and son and make them sit
on a buffalo and parade them through the village.

Meanwhile, sources said that Chamma had eloped with a man on three
occasions earlier.

"If she had been kidnapped a month ago, why didn't her family members
lodge a case with the police then? Why did they wait for Chamma to
return home and cook up a story?" said a member of Chandrawati's
community.

Chandrawati, after the incident, lodged a complaint with the Shikarpur
police in which she named 23 persons, including Chamma and Murari, a
guard in the village. The police said that 10 persons including Chhama
and Murari had been arrested while efforts were on to nab 13 others.


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