Khaps endorse decision to ban girls from wearing jeans

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Khaps endorse decision to ban girls from wearing jeans

PTI – Tue, Jan 18 3:01 PM IST

Muzaffarnagar, Jan 18 (PTI) The decision of a self-styled caste council or Khap

panchayat to ban girls from wearing jeans has been endorsed by the heads of

other such councils, who say that the ban is necessary for preventing young

couples in their villages from eloping.

The Khap panchayat led by Battisa Khap Council head Baba Suraj in Bhenswal

village had on January 16 passed the diktat which claimed that wearing jeans had

a " bad effect " on young women and incidents of eve-teasing had increased due to

their " objectionable clothes " .

Upholding the diktat, head of the Baliyan Khap Council Mahendra Singh Tikait has

said the decision to disallow girls from wearing jeans was right in order to

curb " bad effects " on youths of the villages.

He has appealed to other Khap councils to unitedly implement the decision.

Choudhary Virendra Singh, the head of Latiyan Khap council and Hari Kishan, the

head of Gadwala Khap council have also supported the decision to ban girls from

wearing jeans.

Meanwhile, following the Battisa Khap''s formation of a five-member women

committee to implement the ban, the women have started to keep a watch on the

girls when they go out of their houses.

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