Indian woman says gang-raped on orders of village court

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Indian woman says gang-raped on orders of village court

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/indian-woman-says-gang-raped-orders-village-court-125254513.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/cRL3eF6IIWb0deUKZCT8kQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-23T155303Z_2_CBREA0M13O900_RTROPTP_2_INDIA-RAPE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Indian police personnel escort men, who are accused of a gang-rape, to a court at Birbhum district in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal" align="left" title="Indian police personnel escort men, who are accused of a gang-rape, to a court at Birbhum district in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal" border="0" /></a>By Sujoy Dhar KOLKATA, Jan 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 20-year-old woman in eastern India was gang-raped by 13 men on the orders of a village court as punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community, a senior police officer said on Thursday. The woman, who is now recovering in hospital, told police she was assaulted by the men on the night of January 20 in Birbhum district in West Bengal. &quot;We arrested all the 13 men, including the village chief who ordered the gang rape. The accused have been produced in court which remanded them to jail custody,&quot; Birbhum's Superintendent of Police, C. Sudhakar, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.</p><br clear="all"/>

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