Kangaroo court orders Indian woman to be gang-raped for dating a man from another village

A Kangaroo court in a village in India
ordered a 20year old woman (pictured
above) to be gang-raped by 13 men for
having a relationship with a man from
another village, Times of India reports.
The woman was locked in a shed and
raped overnight by 13 men, 10 of
which had been 'judges' in the
kangaroo court which sentenced her in
a village near Suri in west Bengal state,
police said.
The woman is currently fighting for her
life in hospital while all 13 men have
since been arrested for rape. Among
them is the village headman.
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The rapists pictured above with police.
The woman managed to tell her story
to The Times of India.
'I had an affair with a man. We were
dragged to a gathering where our
community headman was present.
They told me to pay 50,000 rupees
(£490). When I said I couldn't, they
brutalised me.' She told the paper
The woman's distraught mother told
the paper.
'They tortured my daughter and
dumped her home late at night. We
were threatened not to go to police.
We tried to go to Bolpur hospital, but
they stopped us.'
The victim and her lover from another
village and religion were found sitting
and talking by a group of tribal men
from the victim's village on Monday
January 19th. They dragged the two of
them to a religious place known as a
'than' where a makeshift court was
hastily put together on the orders of
the tribal chief.
Police said that the young man was
told to pay a fine of £245 and warned
that if he did not pay, men from the
village would 'have fun with the girl.'
With no money forthcoming, the
woman was allegedly tied to a tree
before she was forced into a shed and
raped continuously until Tuesday
morning.
The victim surrounded by her family.
They managed to take her to hospital
two days after the brutal assault and it
was at the hospital that the crime came
to light and police informed.