KOLKATA, Jan 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 20-year-old woman in eastern
India was gang-raped by 13 men on the orders of a village court as punishment for having a relationship with a man from a different community, a senior police officer said on Thursday.
The woman, who is now recovering in hospital, told police she was assaulted by the men on the night of January 20 in Birbhum district in West Bengal.