<p>Known for their bizarre and shocking decisions, a panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahar district, devised a novel way to deal with a rape case. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The victim is a minor and the alleged culprit was a 50-year-old man with eight children.<br /><br />The panchayat ordered the families of the victim and the culprit to leave the town <br />immediately as their continuance could have a ‘bad effect’ on other residents. <br /><br />The victim had also delivered a baby a few days back, and the panchayat arranged <br />to have the it ‘sold’ to to someone else.<br /><br />Culprit made MMS<br /><br />According to reports, the culprit, a tailor who had a shop at Khurja town in the district, had been ‘sexually exploiting the child, who lived in <br />his neighbourhood with her mother. <br /><br />The culprit had allegedly made an MMS clip of the 16-year-old and was blackmailing her for the past year. <br /><br />When he was told that the victim was pregnant he fled from the area. <br /><br />Girl’s fate<br /><br />Her mother took the girl to a hospital in nearby Aligarh town where she delivered a baby boy.<br /><br />The local people came to know about the matter when the victim and her mother returned home from the hospital recently. <br /><br />A panchayat of some influential people was convened to discuss the matter. <br /><br />After hours of deliberations held on Monday, the panchayat ordered that the families <br />of both the victim and the alleged culprit could not live in the locality any longer.<br /><br />Bad for society<br /><br />The panchayat believes that their presence would have had an adverse effect on the locality. <br /><br />The Panchayat also got the baby sold to a childless couple so that the victim will not have to carry the burden of her ‘sin’, sources said.<br /><br />The victim along with her mother had left on Tuesday. The culprit’s family was also in the process of leaving. <br /><br />Police officials said they had no information about the panchayat’s ruling. “No one has approached us so far,” said a police official.<br /><br />“The matter will be looked into and the guilty will be punished,” he added.<br /></p>
<p>Known for their bizarre and shocking decisions, a panchayat in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahar district, devised a novel way to deal with a rape case. <br /><br /></p>.<p>The victim is a minor and the alleged culprit was a 50-year-old man with eight children.<br /><br />The panchayat ordered the families of the victim and the culprit to leave the town <br />immediately as their continuance could have a ‘bad effect’ on other residents. <br /><br />The victim had also delivered a baby a few days back, and the panchayat arranged <br />to have the it ‘sold’ to to someone else.<br /><br />Culprit made MMS<br /><br />According to reports, the culprit, a tailor who had a shop at Khurja town in the district, had been ‘sexually exploiting the child, who lived in <br />his neighbourhood with her mother. <br /><br />The culprit had allegedly made an MMS clip of the 16-year-old and was blackmailing her for the past year. <br /><br />When he was told that the victim was pregnant he fled from the area. <br /><br />Girl’s fate<br /><br />Her mother took the girl to a hospital in nearby Aligarh town where she delivered a baby boy.<br /><br />The local people came to know about the matter when the victim and her mother returned home from the hospital recently. <br /><br />A panchayat of some influential people was convened to discuss the matter. <br /><br />After hours of deliberations held on Monday, the panchayat ordered that the families <br />of both the victim and the alleged culprit could not live in the locality any longer.<br /><br />Bad for society<br /><br />The panchayat believes that their presence would have had an adverse effect on the locality. <br /><br />The Panchayat also got the baby sold to a childless couple so that the victim will not have to carry the burden of her ‘sin’, sources said.<br /><br />The victim along with her mother had left on Tuesday. The culprit’s family was also in the process of leaving. <br /><br />Police officials said they had no information about the panchayat’s ruling. “No one has approached us so far,” said a police official.<br /><br />“The matter will be looked into and the guilty will be punished,” he added.<br /></p>