Such village courts are not uncommon in Indias vast rural area, where elders settle disputes and deliver judgments on those accused of violating local traditions.
But Nityananda Hembram, a senior leader of Indias largest tribal community says the gang rape was ordered by politically-linked village leaders and not Santhals.
They [Santhal councils] have a very high order of a decision-making process, he said. Their judicial system is that they will never give any punishment to the people concerned. They amicably solve the problem.
Prasenjit Biswas, a professor at North Eastern Hill University in the eastern state of Meghalaya, says tribal councils have been hijacked by political parties.
The identity of the Santhals as a tribe here is under grave threat because the very social order on which this identity is based can be played with by some external forces using their political economic and social influences, he said. And the influences are so disparaging that it completely denigrates the tribal social custom and tries to project it as something outdated.
Amid the outrage surrounding the gang rape and sharp criticism of kangaroo courts, members of West Bengals Santhal tribal community have taken to the streets to defend their traditional practices.
Demonstrators have called for Indias Central Bureau of Investigation to intervene to determine who exactly was involved in ordering the gang rape of the young tribal woman.
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