
The unelected all-male village council in Baghpat, Uttar Pradesh, on July 30 ordered that a woman, 23, and her sister, 15, be raped and paraded naked with their faces blackened after their brother ran away with a woman from the village's dominant Jat caste. The sisters and their family, from the underprivileged Dalit caste, have since fled the village and are hiding in New Delhi. ?ALJAZEERA