Dalit tonsured, paraded for dialling wrong number

BHIWANI: A Dalit youth was beaten, tonsured and paraded through the streets in a Haryana village — for dialling a wrong number. Narrating his ordeal to the police on Wednesday, Suresh, a resident of Dani Ramjas in Bhiwani district, said, ‘‘I was trying the telephone number of one of my acquaintances on Monday when I inadvertently dialled the number of Dharam Singh (another villager). The moment I realized my mistake, I apologized immediately and disconnected the phone.’’ Read More................Dalit tonsured, paraded for dialling wrong number

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10-yr-old tonsured, scalded for stealing egg

MUMBAI: Ten-year-old Vivek Singh did not know that he would be stripped, scalded, thrashed and tonsured as a punishment for stealing an egg, worth all of Rs 3. Read More................10-yr-old tonsured, scalded for stealing egg

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Teachers tonsure `untidy' boys

SOLAN: Three students of a government school near Subathu were taken back to centuries-old method of crude chastisement when their angry teachers chose to dehumanise the boys aged between 12 and 14 by leaving them partially tonsured for coming to school unkempt. Read More................Teachers tonsure `untidy' boys

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3 Women tonsured for selling tobacco

Three women who were running betel nut and cigarette kiosks were rounded up by militants at Irengban in Imphal West district in Manipur state of India. They were released after being tonsured and produced before presspersons. Read more......................Militants tonsure 3 women for selling tobacco

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Woman Tonsured & Paraded

In India's Bihar state, a 58-year-old woman was allegedly paraded with her head tonsured at Hardayalpur village under the Mokama police station.

Her Crime: her son fell in love and subsequently married an upper caste girl belonging to a financially well-off family. Read more.........Woman tonsured for son's 'fault'

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Widow paraded for Stealing Bananas

As per a report, in a weird act in Vaishali district in Bihar state of India, a widow was paraded after tonsuring her head on the charge of stealing a few bananas. 55-year-old widow 'Desri Devi', was guilty of stealing bananas from the field of a farmer Dinesh Rai at Balua-Basant village. She was also fined Indian Rupees 2,500 ( US $ 55 ) by village head despite knowing that she earns her living by begging after her husband had died about a decade ago. As she expressed her inability to pay the hefty fine, a local barber was called and her hair were shaved off.

As per the poor lady, "Some people wanted me to be stripped and then paraded on the streets, but others stopped them from doing that. Still, I was paraded in the lanes of the village for no fault of mine," she said in the FIR lodged with the Lalganj police station. In fact Desri Devi was suffering from somnambulism & in her sleep had walked to the banana field where she was caught by the night-watchman.

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