Indian teenager gang-raped and murdered after being made to lick spit

Police in the Indian state of West Bengal are investigating the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl who had previously been humiliated by a village council.

The 15-year-old had protested with village elders who were set to beat her father for failing to repay a loan he had taken to buy a tractor. The village elders instead turned on her, forcing her to spit on the ground and lick it up.

Soon after the incident, the teenager went missing. Reports said the body of the girl was discovered on Tuesday morning near to a railway track in the state’s Jalpaiguri district.

“At 8.15 am I saw a dead body. I have not seen anything this like before,” Ganesh Prasad, who spotted the body, told the NDTV news channel. “If bodies come under a train, they are in pieces but with clothes on. In this case, only the shoulder was covered by a cloth.”

The relatives of the girl have filed a complaint with police naming a total of 13 people, said to be members of the kangaroo court. Police have detained three people for questioning.

Reports say the villagers have denied the family’s claim that she was murder and said she took her own life.

Across swathes of rural India, such unelected village councils can wield great power. In January, a village headman in the West Bengal town of Sur, located six hours north of Kolkata, allegedly ordered the gang-rape of a young woman as a punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community.

Ben_Reilly wrote:The divide between the lifestyles of urban and rural India continue to amaze me ... it's like you have first-world people living just a few miles from third-world people a few centuries behind the times, it seems. The closest thing I've seen to it is the U.S., but even here the divide isn't that pronounced.

feelthelove wrote:

Police in the Indian state of West Bengal are investigating the alleged rape and murder of a teenage girl who had previously been humiliated by a village council.

The 15-year-old had protested with village elders who were set to beat her father for failing to repay a loan he had taken to buy a tractor. The village elders instead turned on her, forcing her to spit on the ground and lick it up.

Soon after the incident, the teenager went missing. Reports said the body of the girl was discovered on Tuesday morning near to a railway track in the state’s Jalpaiguri district.

“At 8.15 am I saw a dead body. I have not seen anything this like before,” Ganesh Prasad, who spotted the body, told the NDTV news channel. “If bodies come under a train, they are in pieces but with clothes on. In this case, only the shoulder was covered by a cloth.”

The relatives of the girl have filed a complaint with police naming a total of 13 people, said to be members of the kangaroo court. Police have detained three people for questioning.

Reports say the villagers have denied the family’s claim that she was murder and said she took her own life.

Across swathes of rural India, such unelected village councils can wield great power. In January, a village headman in the West Bengal town of Sur, located six hours north of Kolkata, allegedly ordered the gang-rape of a young woman as a punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indian-teenager-gangraped-and-murdered-after-being-made-to-lick-spit-9708859.html

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

feelthelove wrote:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indian-teenager-gangraped-and-murdered-after-being-made-to-lick-spit-9708859.html

The last paragraph is the real problem. The Police won't interfere with tribal law and enforce the law.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:
The divide between the lifestyles of urban and rural India continue to amaze me ... it's like you have first-world people living just a few miles from third-world people a few centuries behind the times, it seems. The closest thing I've seen to it is the U.S., but even here the divide isn't that pronounced.

Few miles? Lol! The poor and the rich are much closer than that. You will find a corrugated iron slum below most high rise buildings.

feelthelove wrote:

Fuzzy Zack wrote:

The last paragraph is the real problem. The Police won't interfere with tribal law and enforce the law.

It's disgusting, how can gang-rape be ordered as a punishment in civilised society or any society?

Nems wrote:

feelthelove wrote:
It's disgusting, how can gang-rape be ordered as a punishment in civilised society or any society?

And to think, that society is advanced enough to have a space programme