Abandoned wife ordered to live with male neighbour in India

[SipahSalar]

Abandoned wife ordered to live with male neighbour in India - Yahoo News

A village council in northern India allegedly ordered a woman, whose husband ran off with their neighbour's wife, to live with the abandoned man or pay him compensation, police said Tuesday.

Police are investigating a complaint that Rajendra Meghwal asked the council in the desert state of Rajasthan for help after his wife and their two children disappeared with Kalulal Meghwal.

Kalulal's wife Mamta has told police that the council or "khap panchayat" ordered her to pay Rajendra 300,000 rupees ($4,775) in compensation for her husband's actions or move in with Rajendra.

"The woman was not present in the khap meeting but she complained to us that she has been asked to pay money or live with Rajendra," local police officer Sanjay Kumar told AFP.

It was unclear whether the woman was asked to live with him as his spouse or as his employee in the house.

Kumar said officers have started questioning council members in Bundi district after Mamta filed a harassment complaint with police.

Panchayats often comprise an unelected group of elders, who are seen as the social and moral arbiters of village life.

Although they carry no legal weight, khap panchayats can be highly influential and have been blamed for numerous abuses such as the sanctioning of "honour killings" of women whose actions are deemed to have shamed their family.

Branded "kangaroo courts" by their critics, they have been known to hand down public beatings and other punishments for perceived crimes.

 

[Indus Falcon]

It seems Village Councils / Panchaiyat / Jirga across the sub continent (both sides of the border) are as dumb as they can get When will they end?

 

[Dr. Sen]

It seems Village Councils / Panchaiyat / Jirga across the sub continent (both sides of the border) are as dumb as they can get When will they end?

Education, improvement of economic status, more jobs etc, then we can expect change.

 

[PlanetWarrior]

It seems Village Councils / Panchaiyat / Jirga across the sub continent (both sides of the border) are as dumb as they can get When will they end?

When our governments ban them instead of turning a blind eye to their stupid rulings

 

[Jaanbaz]

So much retarded shit goes on in rural areas of India and Pakistan.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Kudos to media for highlighting these clowns. Slowly and steadily these khap panchayats will be marginalized from the main society and will be read only in history books.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Common in hindooism to do this.

Proof? Or you are a spammer?

 

[Umair Nawaz]

It seems Village Councils / Panchaiyat / Jirga across the sub continent (both sides of the border) are as dumb as they can get When will they end?

Buddy please dont compare them with us. We have no such type of record in which we say or give such types of orders.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

Buddy please dont compare them with us. We have no such type of record in which we say or give such types of orders.

I just got remembered of Mukhtar Mai in 2011.

I have got to accept India have a serious Khap panchauat problems. Often Police are powerless to stop them. They need to have some spine

 

[Sam.]

I just got remembered of Mukhtar Mai in 2011.

I have got to accept India have a serious Khap panchauat problems. Often Police are powerless to stop them. They need to have some spine

there is no khap panchayat problem but some fools can be found anywhere and media cherry pick them.

 

[indianBong]

Which age do they live???? Sttone age??? Due to vote politics govt turn blind eye..... my frens from haryana told me khaps are very powerful... they do bad as well as good things too....

 

[Kambojaric]

This is F'd up on so many levels.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

I just got remembered of Mukhtar Mai in 2011.

I have got to accept India have a serious Khap panchauat problems. Often Police are powerless to stop them. They need to have some spine

mukhtara mai was in 2001. And it became a national and international issue after that because such things are not accepted in Islam and our society. Thats why it was called off and the people responsible were either hanged or r in jail. But now she is remarried and is happy. Case closed.

But what u guys do is just incomparable.

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

mukhtara mai was in 2001. And it became a national and international issue after that because such things are not accepted in Islam and our society. Thats why it was called off and the people responsible were either hanged or r in jail. But now she is remarried and is happy. Case closed.

But what u guys do is just incomparable.

live in denial. And idiot it has nothing to do with Islam or for any religion for the matter,

Culture of sub continent.

 

[Umair Nawaz]

live in denial. And idiot it has nothing to do with Islam or for any religion for the matter,

Culture of sub continent.

LOL r u denying all that i wrote? Mukhtara Mai saga is well documented u can check it up.