AGARTALA, June 16 (IANS) - The Tripura government has ordered a police probe into a tribal woman being paraded naked earlier this month after a kangaroo court held her guilty of sexual misconduct, Chief Minister Manik Sarkar said Wednesday.
According to police, the 30-year-old woman was beaten up and paraded naked in her village in North Tripura by tribal headmen after a kangaroo court held her guilty of sexual misconduct.
The tribal court said the woman, the wife of a farmer, was "characterless and was spoiling young boys with sexual favours".
The incident took place June 5 at Salema in Dhalai district, some 135 km north of capital Agartala.
"Police arrested 15 tribal men and women in connection with this barbaric act. Tripura is not Haryana. The government cannot allow such highly condemnable incidents," the Chief Minister told the State Assembly, while replying to a notice moved by Congress legislator Manoj Kanti Deb.
Sarkar said: "The government would not spare anybody who would be found guilty in the crime."
"There are customary law systems in the tribal society to punish the guilty in any offence. But such type of abuse and cruelty cannot be allowed in Tripura," Sarkar added.
The Criminal Investigation Department of the State police will conduct the probe.
