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	The council ordered the horrific penalty to be carried out in a village in West Bengal state on Tuesday night after the 20-year-old woman was discovered with a man from another community, a senior officer said.</div>
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	Police have arrested 12 people over the attack which was meted out after the woman&#39;s parents said they could not pay the fine of 25,000 rupees (400 dollars) imposed by the council for having the affair.</div>
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	&quot;The girl was gang-raped for having an affair with a youth of another community and failing to pay the fine which was imposed by the village council,&quot; district police superintendent C. Sudhakar told AFP.</div>
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	&quot;We have so far arrested 12 people in connection with the incident.&quot;</div>
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	The attack again casts India&#39;s record on sexual violence back into the spotlight after national outrage over the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012.&nbsp;</div>
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	AFP</div>

Indian village council orders gang-rape of woman as punishment: police

KOLKATA - A woman was gang-raped by some 12 men on the orders of a village council in eastern India as punishment for apparently having an affair, a police officer said Thursday.