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Indian Police Arrest Kangaroo Court That Executed Husband In Mixed Marriage

By Howard M. Friedman

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The Howrah News Service out of the Indian state of West Bengal reports that police in the village of Lakshmanpur in Berhampore have arrested three men who acted as a kangaroo court and imposed a death sentence on Sailendra Prasad, a non-Muslim man who married a Muslim woman. Prasad hid his true religion when he married Manera Bibi, but disclosed it later on at a time when he was drunk. Prasad's in-laws, upset at his drinking habits, disclosed the unauthorized mixed marriage to the village's self-styled "judge" who then convened the court that imposed and carried out the sentence.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).

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