'Go and enjoy yourselves': What tribal elder

said before Indian gang rape victim was tied to

a platform to be assaulted in view of entire
village because of affair with a Muslim

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Woman, 20, sentenced to 'gang rape' by village court in east India

Punished for having a relationship with a man of another religion
She was tied to a platform and assaulted in front of the entire village
The village head told the 13 men to 'go enjoy yourselves' after 'ruling'
By RICHARD SHEARS
PUBLISHED: 08:36 GMT, 24 January 2014 | UPDATED: 12:38 GMT, 24 January
2014
The 20-year-old Indian woman who was gang-raped by 13
men was sexually assaulted while tied to a raised bamboo platform so her entire village
could watch the torture, it emerged today.
The head of the village, who led the kangaroo court which sentenced the woman to the
savage rape as punishment for her falling in love with a man from another village, told
the other judges to go enjoy yourselves.
It was previously reported that she had been raped repeatedly in a hut, but today it
emerged that she had been publicly humiliated on a platform set up close to the village
headman's hut in the Suri district, West Bengal, the Times of India reported.
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Abhorrent: The 20-year-old woman, pictured arriving at a hospital in Western Bengal,
was raped by more than a dozen men while tied to a bamboo platform in front of the
entire village

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Police arrest around a dozen people in connection with the gang rape of a 20-year-old
woman from Birbhum District in West Bengal, India.

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Disgusting: The village elder, who led the kangaroo court, told the other 'judges' to 'go
enjoy themselves' with the 20-year-old
As the woman remained in intensive care today, further horrific details of the gangrape punishment emerged.
Villagers told the Times of India that after the kangaroo court ordered her to be
sexually savaged after she was caught sitting with her Muslim lover in another village,
she was dragged onto a raised bamboo platform 'so that the gang rape was viewed by
the entire village, children included.'
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The head man, named as Boloi Murdy, who convened the makeshift court in the
courtyard of his home, at first ordered the woman or her family to pay a fine of 50,000
rupees (485).
Murdy is reported to have told the men who gathered to watch the cruel spectacle: 'If
the family does not pay up, go and enjoy yourselves.'
The terrified woman and her lover had sat tied to separate trees as the 'court' discussed
her 'crime'. Her lover was released after he promised to pay his fine, but the woman
was not spared because her family did not have the money to pay immediately.
Alleged gang rape victims speaks out after horror

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Crime scene: The woman was tied to a tree (pictured) before she was dragged to a shed
and raped

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Unspeakable abuse: The woman, seen surrounded by family members as she is
escorted into hospital, was locked in a shed and raped overnight by 13 men, ten of
which had been 'judges' in the kangaroo court which sentenced her

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The dozen men were tied together with ropes as they were taken to a police station

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Inhumane: The 13 men pointed out by the woman is said to have been 'teenagers and
men as old as her father'

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Disgusting crime: Some of the 13 suspects arrives in at a police station after being
arrested
She was tied down to the bamboo platform and then, according to villagers who spoke
to the Times of India, 'her cries rent the air all night but no-one stepped forward to
help her Even her family, who lives 50 meters away, could not rescue her.'
The paper said the woman's family was not given even a night's time to arrange for
money to pay the fine and once the headman ordered rape it was free for all.
'Among those who raped her were teenagers and some old enough to be her father,'
said a villager. 'Almost the entire village - including children - had joined the kangaroo
court.
'All of them hailed it as the correct move.'
The village has no electricity or school and, says the paper, the administration has
always been wary of interfering with tribal traditions, leaving local rulers to live by
their own laws.
'Even on Thursday, a day after the gang-rape by up to 13 people, the village didn't show
any hint of repentance,' says the paper.