<p>Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday demanded exemplary punishment for the accused in the barbaric gang-rape of a 20-year-old tribal girl by 13 people on the order of a kangaroo court at Labhpur village in Birbhum district.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We feel concerned and worried. We feel ashamed that such a barbaric thing has happened. I don’t know which way we are going. Exemplary punishment has to be given to those involved in such an act,” Chatterjee said. <br /><br />Sources in the Suri hospital said medical tests were being conducted and the victim is now stable and eating food. She was gang-raped on the order of the kangaroo court when she expressed her inability to pay Rs 50,000 as fine for falling in love with a man from another community.<br /><br />“The morol (village headman) ordered that I be ‘enjoyed’ by the men of the village. Following his orders, at least 13 people, including (some) members of a single family, took turns to rape me. I lost count of how many times I was raped,” said the victim.</p>
<p>Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on Friday demanded exemplary punishment for the accused in the barbaric gang-rape of a 20-year-old tribal girl by 13 people on the order of a kangaroo court at Labhpur village in Birbhum district.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“We feel concerned and worried. We feel ashamed that such a barbaric thing has happened. I don’t know which way we are going. Exemplary punishment has to be given to those involved in such an act,” Chatterjee said. <br /><br />Sources in the Suri hospital said medical tests were being conducted and the victim is now stable and eating food. She was gang-raped on the order of the kangaroo court when she expressed her inability to pay Rs 50,000 as fine for falling in love with a man from another community.<br /><br />“The morol (village headman) ordered that I be ‘enjoyed’ by the men of the village. Following his orders, at least 13 people, including (some) members of a single family, took turns to rape me. I lost count of how many times I was raped,” said the victim.</p>