The girls and their brother belong to the lowest of the Indian castes (the "untouchables"
. The brother eloped with a woman from a higher caste, which is strictly forbidden.
The woman is now sullied by her contact with the brother and her family has "lost" her because she is now unclean. The unelected council has decided that the brother's family will suffer an eye-for-an-eye punishment by humiliating and raping the sisters.
All claptrap - one assumes that the rapists will be men from the higher caste (or perhaps the male family members of the woman who married the brother). That suggests that they can "sully" themselves by touching these lower-caste girls . . . which makes no sense at all.
But none of it makes sense.
edit: changed not to now.
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