Lucknow: A Dalit woman from Baghpat district has filed a petition in Supreme Court, seeking protection for herself and her sister after a village panchayat ordered that the two sisters be raped and paraded naked in the village as revenge since their brother had eloped with a married girl form the Jat community.
The court has now issued a notice to UP government seeking its response in the matter within two weeks.
According to the girl, her brother Ravi and a Jat girl were in love but were forcefully separated after the girl’s family married her off to someone else in February.
The girl later escaped from in-laws home and eloped with Ravi on March 22. Though the boy and the girl had surrendered after Ravi’s family was allegedly tortured by police and members of the Jat community, the Khap panchayat decided that the boy’s family should be humiliated and insulted to avenge Ravi’s deed.
The girl, in her complaint, has said that their home in the village was ransacked and taken over by the Jat community members following which they escaped to Delhi.
