Indian girl \\\'humiliated\\\' by village elders found dead

KOLKATA, Sept 3(Reuters): The semi-naked body of a teenage girl who was allegedly humiliated by village elders for protesting against her father's harassment has been found near a railway track in eastern India. Police suspect the 15-year-old girl in West Bengal was raped and murdered.
Her family said she was made to spit on the ground and lick it up - an act considered a grave form of humiliation.
 Unofficial courts in India's villages often sanction punishment of residents deemed to have violated local codes.
 Scrutiny of sexual violence in India has grown since the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus.
 The government tightened laws on sexual violence last year after widespread protests following the attack, but violence and discrimination against women remain deeply entrenched.
 The BBC's Amitabha Bhattasali in Calcutta says the girl's body was found near a railway track in the state's Jalpaiguri district on Tuesday - a day after a village court had summoned her and her farmer father to settle a dispute over a tractor.
 Her family members told the police that the elders "threatened the girl with dire consequences" when she protested against the "harassment of her father" by the village court.