Summary:
RAIPUR: In a bizarre community diktat, a minor Baiga girl’s head was partially tonsured after she was allegedly found holding hands of a married man in a village in chief minister’s home district Kawardha . When others in same tribe spotted him touching her, they took the matter to community head complaining that the duo was in illicit relationship and should be punished. Though the girl clarified that the man was drunk and was trying to molest her, Baiga community slapped fine of Rs 5000 on her family as well as man’s family and ordered to partially tonsure her head. It wasn’t a big matter, the man was drunk and tried to touch the girl. But the punishment for girl and her family was a little more..