Two Sisters in India have been sentenced to be raped as punishment after their brother eloped with a married woman.
MIRROR UK reports that an unelected all-male village council in India also ordered that 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15-year-old sister are paraded naked with blackened faces.
According to news site Zee Media, the sisters' brother Ravi fell in love with a girl from the Jat caste, a higher social caste than Ravi and his family, who are Dalit, once known as the 'untouchables', who are at the bottom of India's caste system. The Jat woman's family married her off to someone else in February but she later escaped and eloped with Ravi in March.
The sisters who are to be raped as atonement for their brother's sin have since fled their village in Baghpat district in India.
Amnesty International has launched a petition to save the sisters and the India supreme court has been petitioned.
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