CHILAKURTI (NALGONDA DT): Three Reds disrobed a 25-yr- ‘old woman, forced a quarter liter of arrack down her throat and paraded her naked on the streets, her hands ted-behind with her blouse. Not Satisfied with is gruesome atrocity, they kept her for public view for an hour at “santha” (weekly market) at Chilakurti, 15 km from ‘Nagarjunasagar, on Aug.14, The woman, Varapidatha Muthamma, who belongs to the backward “Colla” caste (shepherds) is a servant in he houses and farm of one of the assailants, She is the mother of a 15- Yr. -old boy. Her husband was away at his workplace a mill in Minyalaguda – when het modesty was outraged. Even as she was Paraded naked, a “Golla” man, Bichamaiah, forced his way to cover her body with a towel but he was thrashed by the Reddy who accompanied her all along, one of them gripping the woman by her hair, he second thrashing her with a soutane and the last with an axe in hand, as the village’s sweeper, Chand, walked behind in guard ‘While the villagers stayed behind the doors, the folks in the marketed the scene.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 22, 1991
