India has done it again -- ordered females to be cruelly punished for the sins of their fathers, brothers, husbands, or other male relatives.
This time, two young sisters of a man who eloped with a married woman from a higher caste this summer have been sentenced to be gang raped as punishment for their brother’s purported criminal offense.
And, once more, the sick and vile verdict was handed done by an unelected tribunal of dirty old men who run the village.
Amnesty International reports that the girls, who are 15 and 23 years of age, have been forced to flee from their home to an undisclosed location where they continue to live in fear.
The human rights NGO has launched a petition to overturn the perverse tribunal’s “disgusting ruling” and the victims’ family has filed an urgent appeal with a legitimate court, but thus far the rape-order still stands.
Shortly after it was issued, relatives of the two sisters who lived with them in Baghpat district fled the residence as well.
The abandoned dwelling has since been looted by their neighbors.
The rape, murder, and brutal oppression of India’s female citizenry has reached an all time high in the past few decades, and the elder tribunals often responsible for ordering these heinous crimes are never arrested or punished themselves.