A village in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district put out a bizarre rule prohibiting women from wearing nightie during the daytime.
As per the rule enforced by the elders of Thokalapalli, a fishermen-dominated village of Nidamarru block, women can wear nighties only between 7 pm and 7 am. Women violating the rule would be fined for Rs 2,000 and anybody who helps in bringing such violator to book would be rewarded with Rs 1,000.
Following reports of the new dikkat, Village Tehsildar Sundar Raju and police sub-inspector Vijay Kumar visited the area to analyse the situation. However, none of the 2,400 odd women in the village came forward to resist the weird rule.
As per a written statement of a woman G V Lakshmi, the rule was actually initiated by women as some men have expressed that they feel uncomfortable around women as the women moving in the neighbourhood in nighties.
