MP family ostracised by village panchayat for sacrificing a goat
BHOPAL: RAVIDRA PAWAR TOLD POLICE EVER SINCE THE PANCHAYAT PASSED THE ORDER, OTHER FARMERS DO NOT LET HIM ENTER THEIR FIELDS SO HE COULD REACH HIS FARM
Afarmer inMadhyaPradesh’s Seoni has approached police against alleged ostracisation of his family for last two years after he sacrificed a goat before the local deity.
RavidraPawarfromMahgaon village of Barghat area in Seoni district, about 350km from Bhopal, has lodged a complaint.
Amit Dhani, in-charge, Barghat police station, told HT that he had received a complaint from on Wednesday in which Pawar claims he was suffering due to ostracisation by his community panchayat for “sacrificing” a goat.
“Ravindra Pawar in his 40s has alleged that in November 2015 he had sacrificed a goat under sanjori ritual. But the community panchyat of the village elders met on the issue and ostracised him from the community”, the police officer said.
As per the complaint Pawar has four to five acres of land, for which he has pass through fields of other farmers to reach. After ostracisation, Pawar claims that other farmers are not cooperating with him, due to which it has become difficult for him to do farming on his land.
Dhani said,“I hope that with police intervention and counseling, the village elders would end his ostracization.”
This is not the first such case in the state.
In September, a woman aged over 50 in Bhind district was ordered by the local community panchayat to beg for a week to collect money for taking a dip in Ganga to atone for her sin of “accidental death” of a calf.
Thewidow,KamleshShriwas, was milking her cow. After the calf refused to part from her mother, she dragged the calf with arope so she could continue milking. In the process, the rope around the neck of the calf tightened, which allegedly led to the death of the calf.
In a similar incident in July this year, a youth in Bundelkhand’sTikamgarhwaspunished by the community panchayat of a village, which ordered him to take holy dip in the Ganges and later organise a feast for the villagers to atone for his sin of killing a cow.