The Supreme Court of India(SC) on Friday Jan 24,2014 took suo motu
cognisance of gang rape of a young tribal woman by 13 villagers in West
Bengal’s Birbhum district and issued notice to the state government.
A Bench Headed by Chief Justice P. Sathasivam, Justices Ranjan Gogoi and
M.Y. Eqbal passed the order and directed district judge of Birbhum to
visit the place and file a report before it within a week.
Note
The gang rape of the 20-year-old woman was allegedly ordered by a
village head at a kangaroo court in Labhpur, about 200 km from Kolkata,
as punishment for falling in love with a man from a different religion.
The victim and her paramour were caught, tied to a tree and assaulted
after which they were asked to pay a fine of Rs 25,000. The gang rape
took place after the girl expressed her inability to pay the amount.
She was gang-raped by 13 persons after a kangaroo court decided to punish her on January 21,2014
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