When normally a rape case is known and registered, the people and the village as a whole stand with the victims, demanding justice. But in this case, it is the opposite.
A young woman who was raped last year, in Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh district, is now being ostracized by her village and panchayat.
For months now the woman and her family have not been able to buy vegetables or get groceries from the ration shop in their village. When the young woman’s relative went to a doctor, he refused to attend to them. When a family member went for a haircut, the barber refused. The local mill refused to grind wheat for the family.
The victim said that she and her family were shunned by their panchayat after the woman refused to change her statement against her attacker in the court. The panchayat has passed a bizarre diktat which made sure the family did not get any support from the community.
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“The villagers gathered at around 11 pm and called my family. They asked me to change my statement in court and also get into an understanding with him (alleged rapist). I refused to do so,” the woman said.
The woman filed a police complaint after she was allegedly raped by a man who gave her an intoxicant, took her videos and then threatened her.
According to her, the panchayat leaders told her parents, “Make your daughter understand. Or else you will be an outcast in this village. We’ll drive you out of this village.”
As a punishment, the family was even forced to pay fine of Rs. 11, 000, the woman alleged.
The woman’s family has given a written complaint with the police against the panchayat’s order.
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