Odisha: Woman tonsured, paraded on streets with blackened face; 10 detained

A woman was tonsured and paraded on streets with a blackened face for allegedly duping villagers.

A 40-year-old woman was allegedly tonsured and paraded on streets with her face blackened in Odisha’s Kendrapara district by a group of locals, most of them women, for allegedly duping them after promising to get their loans sanctioned by a cooperative bank, a police officer said on Tuesday.

The disturbing episode took place a couple of days ago in a village in Pattamundai block, 103 km east of Bhubaneswar, the officer said.