Reddy’s strip BC woman 

Chilakurti (Nalgonda Dt): Three Reddis disrobed a 25-year-old woman, forced a quarter liter of arrack down her throat and paraded her naked on the streets, her hands tied-behind with her blouse. Not satisfied with his gruesome atrocity, they kept her for public view for an hour at Santha (weekly market) at Chilakurti, 15 km from Nagarjuna Sagar, on Aug. 14. The woman, Varapidatha Muthamma, who belongs to the backward Golla caste (shepherds), is a servant in the house and farm of one of the ‘assailants. She is the mother of a 15-year-old boy. Her husband was away at his workplace – a mill in Miryalaguda – when her modesty was outraged. Even as she was paraded naked, a Golla man, Bahamian, forced his way to cover her body with a towel but he was thrashed by the Reddy who accompanied her all along, one of them gripping the woman by her hair, the second thrashing her with a stout cane and the last with an axe in hand, as the village’s sweeper, Chand, walked behind in guard. While the villagers stayed behind the doors, the folks in the market led the scene. (Hindu Aug. 17).