An Indian village has banned women from using mobile phones in public in an attempt to restrict their contacts with men and plans hefty fines for violators, police said Wednesday.
Village elders ruled that women found using a mobile phone outside their homes would be fined 21,000 rupees ($325) – a sum it would take most rural Indians several months to earn.
The ruling was issued on Tuesday in Madora, a mainly Muslim village in the conservative northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
local police chief Arun Kumar Singh said, “We have received reports about the Khap ordering the ban on women using mobile phones,”.
