Widow humiliated for entering Kali temple

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Widow humiliated for entering Kali temple

 

Merinews network

India

 

4 April, 2008,

 

Superstition and illiteracy continue to be a curse for the

country, especially in backward states. In a shameful

incident a widow was made to wear a garland of shoes and

to top it, her face was blackened after she defied a ban on

her offering prayers at a Kali temple in Dhanbad district in

Jharkhand early this week.

 

Kalawati Devi was barred by villagers from entering the

temple because she was a widow, reports in the local media

said.

 

Victims of superstition and backwardness, the villagers

believed that her husband had died due to some fault of

hers. Therefore should she enter the temple to pray, it would

portend ill for other villagers, especially the married

womenfolk.

 

The widow defied the ban imposed on her by the villagers,

entered the Kali temple and offered prayers. A resident of

Pawapur village in Dhanbad district, she paid a price for her

daring.

 

Villagers spied her at the temple and surrounded her. They

made her wear a garland strung together with old shoes. Not

satisfied they then proceeded to blacken her face and

paraded her in the village square. To make matters more

unseemly than they were, most of those who humiliated

Kalawati were women.

 

When the widow filed a case at the police station against six

men and 30 women of the village, incensed villagers staged

a demonstration outside the police station on Wednesday

demanding that the case be withdrawn forthwith.

 

 

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