Cruelty against women never justified: HC changes 2010 order
Modifying a 2010 order in a 17-year-old case, the Madras High Court said that cruelty against women in the name of 'ceremonies' can never be justified. The case pertained to four women who forcibly took a young woman to a dam at night, stripped her, tonsured her head, and burnt her tongue, claiming she was possessed by an evil spirit.