Gadis India berusia 16 Tahun Dibakar Hidup-Hidup Setelah Diperkosa
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| Gadis India berusia 16 Tahun Dibakar Hidup-Hidup Setelah Diperkosa |
Empat belas orang telah ditangkap sehubungan dengan serangan di negara bagian Jharkhand di India timur.
Polisi mengatakan para tetua telah memerintahkan para pemerkosa yang dituduh melakukan 100 sit-up dan membayar denda 50.000 rupee (£ 550; $ 750) sebagai hukuman.
Mereka sangat marah, mereka memukuli orang tua gadis itu lalu membakarnya.
"Kedua terdakwa membantai orang tua dan bergegas ke rumah tempat mereka membakar gadis itu dengan bantuan antek-antek mereka," Ashok Ram, petugas yang bertanggung jawab atas kantor polisi setempat, mengatakan kepada kantor berita AFP.
The girl was believed to have been abducted from her home while her parents were attending a wedding.
Local police said she was raped by two men in a forested area near the village of Raja Kendua.
Upon discovering the assault, her parents went to village elders to pursue charges against the suspected perpetrators.
Councils of village elders carry no legal weight. However, they have significant influence in many parts of rural India and are a way of settling disputes without having to go through India's expensive judicial system.
Police in the state say that they have arrested 14 of the 18 people they want to investigate with regards to the rape and subsequent murder.
One of the two men accused of carrying out the attack has yet to be arrested, Bokaro inspector general of police Shambhu Thakur told the Hindustan Times.
However, several village elders have been charged with passing unlawful orders and tampering with evidence.
The latest incident comes as India reels from a string of violent sexual crimes.
About 40,000 rape cases were reported in India in 2016. Many cases, however, are believed to go unreported because of the stigma that is attached to rape and sexual assault.
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