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From: Venugopalan K M <kmvenuannur@gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, November 23, 2009 9:16:38 PM
Subject: Fwd: [ANN:2248] Naked Parading of Women----India's NATIONAL passtime ?
Incidentally,these innumerable links generating every day , related to outrageous patterns of women's oppression in entire rural India question the credibility of theorizing them by certain quarters only on the basis of caste and holding that feminist and queer theories are biased against dalits and that they are not relevant to this country.
(Venu)
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>Pregnant UP woman beaten up, paraded nakedhttp://www.deccanchronicle.com/national/pregnant-woman-beaten-paraded-naked-889
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>November 23rd, 2009
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>A 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.
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>The incident took place on Sunday evening at Karnawala village in Bijnor district, about 400 km from Lucknow.
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>Of the four people who were primarily behind the incident, two have been arrested, police said.
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>"In the incident, the woman suffered a miscarriage. She is undergoing treatment at a hospital," police inspector Rajesh Kumar Gautam told reporters.
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>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.
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>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
>July 9th, 2009 - 2:19 pm ICT by IANS -
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>Lucknow, July 9 (IANS) A 50-year-old woman was assaulted and paraded naked through an Uttar Pradesh village because her son was caught with a girl, police said Thursday. Five members of the girl's family caught the woman by her hair and forced her to walk naked through the village in Aligarh district's Padiawali village, about 300 km from here.
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>Although the incident took place Monday, police registered a case only Thursday. A police inspector has been suspended for the delay.
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>Describing the events leading up to the incident, Superintendent of Police Hridesh Kumar (rural) told IANS over phone: "The boy and the girl were spotted together in the village fields by some locals. They informed the girl's father, who along with his four sons started beating him with wooden sticks."
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>When the mother intervened to try and rescue her son, they turned on her, he added.
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>All the five suspects are absconding.
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>Read more:
>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/son-caught-with-girl-mother-paraded-naked_100215489.html#ixzz0Xk19tR2F
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>Dalit woman paraded half-naked in Uttar PradeshJune 25th, 2009 - 2:55 pm ICT by IANS -
>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.
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>Read more:
>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/dalit-woman-paraded-half-naked-in-uttar-pradesh_100209316.html#ixzz0Xk1wRP7l
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>Five women stripped, paraded naked in JharkhandOctober 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.
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>http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/five-women-stripped-paraded-naked-in-jharkhand_100262389.html
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>http://www.indiatime.com/2008/09/24/stripped-and-paraded-naked-in-india/
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>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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