PPFA lambasts villagers’ diktat on woman, urges NCW to take action

Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA), while expressingutter dismay over the diktat of a group of villagers to send a nativewoman along with a teen out of the locality for illicit relationshipwith some people, urged the concerned authority including the National Commission for Women (NCW) to take necessary action against those village-judges to pronounce and implement the decision.
The forum of nationalist citizens in northeast India also dared thevillage-headman, who was reportedly instrumental in realizing that particular decision, to reveal names of all those ‘holy men’ (probably most of them belong to the village itself) who frequently visited the ‘loose character’ village woman taking advantage of her husband’s absence.
Local media reports narrate a shocking story that a middle-aged woman from Dighala Chapori village under Lakhimpur district in eastern Assam was banished for 12 years as she was ‘found’ having illicitrelationship with a number of people. It was decided in a recentmeeting (seemingly the kangaroo court) presided over by thevillage-headman to chase away the woman with her teenage son.
“The decision to send a woman (whose husband is out of Assam foremployment) with her son out of the village is not only illegal butalso cruel in nature. It might push the boy into a world of insecurityand crime. Nonetheless, a village itself or its headman does not enjoythe authority to issue such a diktat in our country,” said a PPFAstatement adding that the State police department should immediately take the initiative to book the culprits under the law.

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