Representative image. | Sunidhi Kothari/Feminism In India
The Madhya Pradesh Police on Monday arrested four people for allegedly forcing a woman to perform a regressive ritual of carrying her former husband’s brother on her shoulders because she left him for another man, ANI reported.
A video of the incident, which shows a boy perched on the woman’s shoulder as she lunges forward, was widely circulated on social media. The clip also shows villagers, all men, heckling and making fun of her as they march behind her. Some of them even hit her with sticks when she slowed down.