To establish dominance, instil fear and express anger was also the agenda in the following two cases from UP, told to me by the sub-inspector I’ve been chatting with for a few years. The son of a taxi driver had become a doctor in Mumbai, and married another doctor. When the couple visited his village, the local Thakur and his sons tied the wife to a tree and raped her in front of her husband because, as landed gentry, they “couldn’t handle a poor taxi driver’s son being an MBBS”. Although apparently comforted by her husband, she jumped from the train near Igatpuri and died. Another: in order
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