One of the sisters sentenced to be gang-raped in India as punishment for their brother running off with a married woman has spoken out about her terrifying awaiting faith. 23yo Meenakshi Kumari, and her 15-year-old sister have ran off from their village after the elders decided they should be raped.
She now lives in fear that someone will come for them and bring them back to the village to face the vile form of ‘justice’. ‘How will we ever return home or to our village? If we ever return they will harm us or rape us. If not today then in the future,’ she said, metro reports.
She believes their escape will have ‘humiliated’ the un-elected elders, claiming that they will ‘not forget this humiliation. They want their revenge’. Their sins was that their 25yo brother, Sumit Kumar, is of a lower caste than the woman he ran away with.
The family has appealed to India’s Supreme Court from their hiding place, begging to be saved from the horrific punishment. Despite the constant fear, Meenakshi says she doesn’t blame her brother for his actions. ‘'Loving someone is not wrong.''
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