Odisha :Woman's Body Carried On Trolley As Villagers Shun Last Rites For Lass' Inter-Caste Marriage
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In yet another instance of caste-based discrimination, a woman was denied to carry her body after her death forcing her relatives to take her to a crematorium on a trolley.
Sambalpur, Feb 20: In what comes as a fallout of caste discrimination, a deceased woman's body was carried on a trolley to the crematorium ground after villagers refused to attend her funeral over her daughter's inter-caste marriage in a village in Sambalpur district.
The incident has been reported from Kuchuinda's Ward No- 5 in Sambalpur district.
The deceased woman has been identified as Gomati.
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✨As per the reports, Gomati has seven daughters and the husbands of all of them belong to other castes.
Going against the society's (Samaj) rules brought their ire which did not cooperate with her, even after her death.
The Samaj even allegedly threatened her relatives who wanted to carry her body to the crematorium, forcing them to carry her body on a trolley.
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