Indian women banned from using mobile phones

The village elders claim that mobile phones are the source of all evils in society Sunderbadi, India – UPI Public officials in a poor village in India have banned women from using mobile phones. Sunderbadi village officials said that any girl caught using a mobile phone will be fined 10,000 rupee ($182) .
Married women will be fined 2,000 rupee ($36.50) for the same offence, Indo Asian News Service reported Monday. The decision was made after a meeting of village elders and its administrative unit.
Mohammed Manzoor Alam, the man who presided over the meeting where the ban was enacted, said the group deemed mobile phones a moral hazard.
"Mobile phone is the cause of all evils in our society, including increasing love affairs and the incidents of elopement," he claimed.
Sunderbadi is a village where nearly 60 percent of residents live in poverty, IANS said.