Woman stripped on orders of tribal panchayat in MP

Jagram Viswakarma, Alirajpur.

While the world was getting ready to party on New Year's eve to welcome 2015, back in the tribal heart of Madhya Pradesh, a tribal panchayat (village council) in Alirajpur district unleashed a spine-chilling punishment to a married woman and her alleged young lover. 

Just a few hours after the 25-year-old woman, who is a mother of two children returned with a relative and allegedly her lover, Kamlesh to their village Wadha in Alirajpur's Udaigarh area (250 km from Indore), the duo were produced before a tribal panchayat by none other than the elected village sarpanch (head) Dhan Singh on December 31.

Both the woman and Kamlesh were first beaten up publicly in the presence of villagers and then tonsured. Subsequently, the woman was stripped and forced Kamlesh to "wash her breasts" (breastfeed), Udaigarh police station in-charge Gopichand Patel told on News Relic.