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(From Indian Express)
Eight months after her wedding, the 16-year-old went home to see her parents. Only to be stripped, beaten and allegedly raped by an ex-lover, Vikram Parmar, his father and cousins. Today, her husband wants to leave her, Vikram is absconding, his father and wife are out on bail. The story begins more than eight months ago, when the village panch effected a compromise between the girl's family and her ex-lover. She then got married and came home a fortnight ago. She says she had left home to cut grass on August 19. ''Vikram followed me, then signalled to his family members who seemed to be waiting to beat me up,'' alleges the girl. She says she fled, ...