Indian man chained for defying father in marriage

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Fri May 11, 8:18 AM ET

KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Police in eastern India have rescued a Muslim man who had been shackled in chains for a month for marrying his childhood lover against the wishes of his father and village clerics, authorities said Friday.

Raghu Amin, 21, was locked in a dingy room by his father in a village in the state of West Bengal after he publicly announced his marriage to 18-year-old Sehnaaz Khatoon, who came from a poorer and lower class family, police said.

"He was chained throughout and even served food in this condition as punishment," said police officer Jay Biswas.


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070511/od_nm/india_chain_dc;_ylt=Am8v2YLbVXkWgopHC7roYifMWM0F

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Muslim?

I thought practitioners of the "religion of peace" didn't believe in looking down on others because they were poor. Isn't that the whole point of Ramadan--starve yourself during the day in order to remember what life is like for those less fortunate?

I thought it was only those evil pagan Hindus that still practiced the caste system.