In yet another incident of kangaroo courts taking the law into their hands, Shalishi Sabha, the Bengali equivalent of Khap panchayats, ordered a husband to cut the hair of his wife as punishment for alleged adultery in Muslim-dominated Murshidabad district.

A 32-year-old woman, who was accused by the Shalishi Sabha of Chandpur village in Nowda Police Station limits of having an extra-marital affair, was asked along with her husband to pay Rs 6,000 to the Shalishi Sabha as 'cost of honour'.

COST OF HONOUR DEMANDED



"The couple could manage Rs 1,000 and pleaded the Shalishi Sabha to let them go. However, the kangaroo court refused to budge and demanded that the husband cut the hair of the accused woman if the Shalishi Sabha was not paid the demanded money. On Sunday, the Shalishi Sabha was called again and the husband was forced to cut the hair of his wife in full public glare," a source said.

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FIR LODGED



The accused, along with his kin, lodged an FIR with the Nowda Police Station. "We nabbed two accused Imadul Sheikh and Liton Sheikh from within our police station limits," officials of Nowda Police Station told the media. The infamous Shalishi Sabhas or kangaroo courts of West Bengal had earlier pronounced judgements on women to be raped, tied to trees, lynched and paraded naked.