One of the sisters who has been sentenced to be repeatedly raped because her brother eloped with a woman from a higher caste has said she cannot return home because she fears village elders will want to take revenge on her.
An illegal jury, composed of male upper caste Baghpat village elders, reportedly ordered the gang rape of Meenakshi Kumari, 23, and her 15-year-old sister after their brother Ravi eloped with a married woman, known only as Krishna, from a higher caste.
Ms Kumari, fearing for their lives, petitioned India's Supreme Court for protection. The case brought international attention after an Amnesty International petition to save the two girls from the punishment garnered more than 200,000 signatures.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03 2015, @07:03AM
This is a country that can put satellites in orbit, yet these reprehensible, socially backwards kinds of things are still allowed to happen.
Sounds just like Wyoming, where Matthew Shepard can be sentence to death by an illegal jury, and Dick "Dick" Cheney can become President of Vice. (But, of course, Liz could not get a current fishing license, so there is that, besides all the raping.)