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The writ of the community

Year Vilalge/police station Description
1953 Pipra Five thousand santhals perfromed Gopikandar bitlaha on a boy and a girl for having illicit sexual relations.  Both their houses were damaged
1956 Kharibari The police had to open fire at Maheshpur; 20,000 Santhals assembled to perform the bitlaha for sexual intercourse between a dikku and a Santhal woman
1957 Kunji Bitlaha to punish cousins who had Jarmundi illicit sexual relations.  Some 3,000 Santhals participated and the house of the offenders was damaged, their paddy and maize stores plundered
1957 Baratanr Illicit relationship between a married Jarmundi woman and her brother-in-law
1958 Kaurigarh Five thousand Santhals performed bitlaha Shikaripara at a dikku's house for having illicit relations witha Santhal girl
1959 Khangrakhil Eight hundred Santhals sang and danced Ramgarh in the streets for the bitlaha for an 'illegal' marriage between relatives
1962 Lilatari One thousand armed Santhals danced and sang at the bitlaha of a boy and a girl who were related to each other and were accused of having a secret relationship.  Both their houses were damaged
1962 Kusmaha Five thousand armed villagers performed Ramgarh bitlaha in the village where a man committed adultery with a married woman, damaging his house

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