Woman Forced to Wait More Than Two Days at Hospital's ER Amid COVID Surge.Singapore Says Its Residents Are 80 Percent Fully Vaccinated.Children 'Dying Very Quickly' as Mystery Fever Kills 68 People in One Week.'Action will be taken if we find the girls were forced to walk naked,' Damoh superintendent of police DR Teniwar told the Press Trust of India news agency. Madhya Pradesh police said they had not received any formal complaint about the ritual, but said they had opened an investigation into it. The incident was reported on September 5, and India's National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is looking for a report on it from the administration of Damoh district, where the village is based. Villagers believe the ritual will appease the rain god and bring rainfall to the region, which had been seeing paddy crops dying due to drought.
Social media videos reportedly showed young girls walking nude with a wooden shaft on their shoulders, which had a frog tied to it, in the drought-hit Baniya village in the Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh state. Six minor girls in central India, some of them reported to be as young as five, were allegedly stripped and paraded naked as part of a village ritual to summon rain.
