The 23-year-old woman, who was kidnapped, gang raped for eight months and fell pregnant returned home after the Gujarat High Court rejected her petition to terminate her pregnancy because she was too advanced in her pregnancy.
She has no idea of the horror that was ensue in coming times. For the sake of her family, she is now being forced to go through a ‘Chokha Thavani Viddhi’ or a grueling purification ritual.
A tantrik who practices black magic and believes in supernatural powers will conduct the purification ritual.
The tantrik ritual begins by taking a pinch of barley seeds from a bag and asking her to say whether the numbers of seeds in his hand are odd -numbered or even to find out whether she is speaking the truth or not.
The tantric assumes her answer a lied if the woman gave the wrong answer and therefore the same process is repeated with a 10-kg stone on her head. Until the tantric is satisfied that she is telling the truth, she has to keep the stone on her head.
“Sometimes it takes months to purify as people lie initially but Goddess knows it all and finally they have to speak the truth,” as elder told the BBC reporter.
The victim belongs to such practices in the Devipujak community are only aimed towards women and are used occasionally.
Her husband will not leave her side whatever be the outcome.