“We expect all students to be treated with dignity and respect, and we deem unacceptable all acts of discrimination and harassment including but not limited to sexual, racial and religious,” Bannerman wrote in the letter.”

The whole thing is do to the caste system they have. The Girl from the higher ranked caste chose not to marry someone she was arranged with and eloped with the brother from a lower ranked one. So they are taking the punishment out on the brother’s sisters. Couple that with women being almost like property there and…

MASSIVELY EDITED: I cowtow. I really don’t feel like getting into a debate on the internet right now and don’t believe the things being attributed to me so I will just remove the text, say ‘What is happening in this one place in India sucks!” And move on

I signed the Amnesty petition last night right after I read about it. Also, there’s more to the story. The brother and the married woman were in love, and eloped after her family forced her to marry a man in the Jat caste to stop the relationship with the brother.

This reminds me of the case last year where a woman was gang raped by thirteen village men because she was seen with a man of another faith. He was able to pay the arbitrary fine the village elder demanded but she wasn’t. So they tied her up and gang raped her all night. When the men were arrested, their wives and…

“The sisters weren’t convicted of any crimes, rather their sentence was punishment for their brother’s elopement.”