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Indian village bans marriages that have not received parental permission as raft of draconian measures are introduced against women
Village elders ban women from using mobile phones and order them to cover heads in public
Women under 40 told they must be accompanied in public
While India's desire to modernise continues unabated, away from the Bollywood glamour of Mumbai and the vibrancy of New Dehli attitudes in some parts of the country remain stuck in the past.
Village elders in the small settlement of Asara in the north-western state of Uttar Pradesh have just a passed a ruling which forbids any marriage which has not been given parental approval.
Not only that but the council has also banned the use of mobile phones by all women and insisted that those under the age of 40 must be accompanied when they step outside. Females have also been told by the body called the Panchayat that they must cover their heads in public.
The moves have been described as the 'Talibanisation' of rural India - a reference to the extreme sharia laws implemented by the Taliban.
It was reported in the Daily Telegraph that council representative Sattar Ahmed described love marriages as a 'shame on society'.
He said: 'It is very painful for the parents , especially the girl's family, because such marriages dent their respectability.'
While the rulings carry no legal weight because of their standing in sections of Indian society Panchayat councils do have significant sway and police are investigating the decision.
Order: A village in India has ordered that all marriages must be agreed by both sets of parents
India's drive to grow its economy contrasts with its ongoing struggle to break free of conservative social traditions in areas where women's rights remain almost non-existent.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram said the orders had no place in a democratic society.
He said: 'Police must act against anyone issuing such diktats.
'If anyone takes action against any young man or woman based on illegal village courts then they must be arrested.'
The Panchayat have vehemently defended their new decrees, insisting they are vital to protect women from 'bad elements' in society.
Women's rights groups have condemned the decision with the All India Democratic Women's Association's general secretary Sudha Sunder Raman saying the concept of women up to the age of 40 needing protection and to be controlled was extremely chauvinistic.
Panchayat councils are an unelected group of elders whose rulings have been blamed for a number of abuses recently such as the sanctioning of so-called honour killings against women deemed to have brought shame on the family.Only last month Ogad Singh, carried the severed head of his daughter Manju Kunwar through the streets of a village in Western India after he killed her because he was upset with her way of life and what he said was 'indecent behaviour'.
Ongoing issue: Last month Ogad Singh, pictured, beheaded his daughter Manju Kunwar and paraded her severed head around the villageof Dungarji in Rajasthani
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z20eNPL84eIndia was named as the worst place in the world for women to live out of the top 19 economies in the world in a poll by Thomas Reuters Foundation last month.
In recent weeks Mumbai police have adopted a stricter moral line with women with bars and clubs being fined or shut down for being overcrowded and scores of women were arrested accused of being prostitutes.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z20eMsAQ6Y
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