MP Woman Forced To Carry In-Laws On Shoulders As Punishment

Woman forced to carry in-laws, publicly humiliated: A woman in Madhya Pradesh was reportedly forced to carry a member from her husband's family in a bid to publicly shame and humiliate her. In a video going viral on social media, she can be seen carrying a child on her shoulder as a crowd of men follows her with sticks, jeering her.

As per NDTV, the incident took place in the tribal areas of MP's Guna district, where the woman had to carry the family member for three kilometres. Reports claim the woman had, with mutual consent, separated from her husband for another man. However, his family abducted her recently and brought her back to their village.

Authorities have filed a case and four accused have been arrested.

Video of the woman forced to carry in-laws below:

A married tribal woman in Guna was beaten up, shamed and forced to carry her relatives on her shoulders as punishment @ndtv @ndtvindia @NCWIndia @sharmarekha @ChouhanShivraj @drnarottammisra @OfficeOfKNath @manishndtv @GargiRawat @vinodkapri @rohini_sgh pic.twitter.com/H8ZJL8m86g

— Anurag Dwary (@Anurag_Dwary) February 15, 2021

Woman forced to carry in-laws as humiliation: Similar incidents

There have been instances of similar humiliations inflicted on women in MP before. Last year in July we reported how a tribal woman in Jhabua district was forced her to carry her husband on her shoulders for an alleged extra-marital affair. The video of the incident had gone viral on social media. Consequently, police took cognisance of the video and registered a case. The husband was reportedly arrested.

MP has noted an increasing number of horrific crimes against women and girl children. In January this year, a 13-year-old girl was gang-raped, reportedly multiple times, by nine people in Madhya Pradesh. Truck drivers passed around this girl from one to the other. Read more on that case here.  The same month an MP shopkeeper was arrested for the rape and murder of yet another 13-year-old girl.