Petition to protect 2 sisters inked
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Thousands have signed a petition urging protection for two Indian sisters after a local council allegedly ordered them raped and paraded naked as 鈥減unishment鈥 after their brother eloped with a married woman.
Amnesty International said yesterday more than 122,000 people have joined its online petition in recent days to protest at the order by the council of elders in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
鈥淎n unelected all-male village council (khap panchayat) ordered that they be raped and paraded naked, their faces blackened, as punishment for the actions of their brother,鈥 Amnesty鈥檚 petition said.
One of the sisters this month filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking protection for her family after they were forced to flee their village in Bhagpat district.
The family, from the lowest 鈥渦ntouchable鈥 Dalit caste, was forced into hiding after the brother eloped with a woman from the village鈥檚 dominant Jat caste, according to lawyer Vivek Singh.
The council of Jat elders issued the rape order against the sisters, aged 23 and 15, in July after Jats falsely accused the brother of abducting the married woman, Singh said.
鈥淭hey were threatened by the Jats with rape. They wanted to take revenge for the actions of their brother,鈥 Singh, acting for the 23-year-old sister who filed the case, said.
The Supreme Court ordered Uttar Pradesh authorities to reply to the sister鈥檚 petition by September 15.
Amnesty called yesterday for an investigation into the council鈥檚 order, saying Dalits suffered widespread discrimination.
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