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  Community panchayat bans jeans, mobile phones for girls

  India | Aug 09, 2014, 11:16 AM IST

  Muzaffarnagar (UP): A community panchayat has banned girls from wearing jeans and keeping mobile phones claiming that they were having a “bad” effect on them and were responsible for eve-teasing incidents.  The panchayat of Gujjar

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  Girl students respond with their own 'community panchayat'

  India | Jul 17, 2012, 07:45 PM IST

  Muzaffarnagar, Jul 12: Amid uproar over Taliban-like diktats against women by a village in Baghpat, girl students from various villages in this district convened their own ‘community panchayat' and vowed not to use mobile phones