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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/single-women-face-mobile-phone-ban.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Unmarried women have been banned from using mobile phones in an Indian village" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-single-women-face-mobile-phone-ban.jpg" alt="Unmarried women have been banned from using mobile phones in an Indian village"/></a></p>
<p>Unmarried women have been banned from using mobile phones in an Indian village &#8211; to stop them arranging forbidden marriages that are often punishable by death.</p>
<p>Lank village council, in northern India, decided on Tuesday that unmarried men can use mobile phones, but only under parental supervision.</p>
<p>Local women&#8217;s rights groups criticised the measure as backwards and unfair.</p>
<p>The council fears that young men and women are secretly arranging marriages forbidden under Hindu customs, such as marrying someone from the same clan &#8211; an act that can provoke extreme community punishments, including honour killings.</p>
<p>Police say 34 couples eloped last month in Muzaffarnagar district, where Lank is located in Uttar Pradesh state. The elopements led to eight honour killings.</p>
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