A 32-year-old tribal woman, who is also a mother to four kids, was made to carry her husband on her shoulders for nearly two kms across Khedi village in Jhabua district (400 KM from Bhopal) of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
Her fault?
She allegedly eloped with a man last month.
A video of the incident in which the woman was purportedly seen carrying a man on her shoulders and also being beaten up by him and other villagers is doing rounds on social media. Apparently, not a single villager came to her rescue, rather her ordeal was filmed on their mobile phones.
Indian Express
Meanwhile, Police have booked six persons on a complaint lodged by the woman and arrested four of them.
On the basis of the complaint lodged by the woman, we have booked six persons, including her brother-in-law and father-in-law, police said
“We have booked six persons under sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) , 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the IPC,” Pitol police post in-charge Naveen told PTI.
Earlier, the woman’s husband had filed a complaint with the Pitol Police stating that his wife had “eloped” with a tribal man on October 28.
Indian Express
However, she was “brought back” to the village, dominated by Bhil community, after a “mediation” on November 4, according to the police officer
Once back, a family panchayat was held in the village where she was told that she could stay with Dhuma only if she walked two kilometres carrying her husband on her shoulders. She accepted the punishment out of fear.
The officer said the woman was allegedly beaten up by her husband and some villagers before she was forced to carry him on her shoulders across the entire village for “two km”.
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