“The National Commission for Women (NCW), taking suo motu cognisance of the horrific gang rape of a young tribal woman in Birbhum district of West Bengal on the ‘orders’ of a khap panchayat on Monday last, has decided to send a team to conduct an inquiry.
The 20-year-old was gang raped by 13 persons—all of whom have since been arrested — following a diktat by a kangaroo court after her family expressed their inability to pay the “fine” imposed on her for an alleged affair with a boy from another community.
“A three-member team will travel to West Bengal next week and enquire into recent cases of sexual violence against women in the State,” NCW chairperson Mamata Sharma told The Hindu. The Commission is in the process of compiling these cases.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from The Hindu:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ncw-to-probe-gang-rape-in-west-bengal/article5610549.ece
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