<p class="title">A village in the heart of khap-dominated Haryana "believes" it has found the answer to girls eloping with boys.</p>.<p class="title">The culprit is the smartphone, it has inferred.</p>.<p class="title">Jeans is equally to share the blame, which is why this village with a population of over 5,000 has banned mobile phones and jeans for all girls residing in the settlement. </p>.<p class="title">Ishapur Kheri village in Rohtak district is firmly backing this diktat of sorts.</p>.<p class="title">It is even mulling on ways to ensure that girls do not violate the ban on wearing jeans or mobile phones.</p>.<p class="title">Sex skewed Haryana has often been in news for its absurd diktats, including one that intended to establish a correlation between eating chow mein and high incidents of rape. </p>.<p class="title">Marriages within the same gotra are banned in villages dominated by khap panchayats. Honour killings, too, have often put the state in bad light. </p>.<p class="title">Interestingly, this particular diktat to ban jeans and mobile phones for girls is not applicable for boys. </p>.<p class="title">Village headman Prem Singh maintains that the decision was deemed "appropriate" after a few girls of the village, all college students, eloped with boys some time ago.</p>.<p class="title">He feels the incident has brought shame to the village. </p>.<p class="title">The panchayat based its decision on the "logic" that had it not been for communication over a mobile phone, the girls would not have eloped. </p>.<p class="title">The ban on jeans exclusively for girls comes after the panchayat felt that such modern attire attracts the attention of others, which can be avoided.</p>.<p class="title">Sources said the decision is now being communicated aggressively in the village through various modes, including broadcast through loudspeakers.</p>.<p class="title">There has also been some dissent to the diktat. One of the members of the panchayat has quit his post reportedly in protest against the move.</p>
<p class="title">A village in the heart of khap-dominated Haryana "believes" it has found the answer to girls eloping with boys.</p>.<p class="title">The culprit is the smartphone, it has inferred.</p>.<p class="title">Jeans is equally to share the blame, which is why this village with a population of over 5,000 has banned mobile phones and jeans for all girls residing in the settlement. </p>.<p class="title">Ishapur Kheri village in Rohtak district is firmly backing this diktat of sorts.</p>.<p class="title">It is even mulling on ways to ensure that girls do not violate the ban on wearing jeans or mobile phones.</p>.<p class="title">Sex skewed Haryana has often been in news for its absurd diktats, including one that intended to establish a correlation between eating chow mein and high incidents of rape. </p>.<p class="title">Marriages within the same gotra are banned in villages dominated by khap panchayats. Honour killings, too, have often put the state in bad light. </p>.<p class="title">Interestingly, this particular diktat to ban jeans and mobile phones for girls is not applicable for boys. </p>.<p class="title">Village headman Prem Singh maintains that the decision was deemed "appropriate" after a few girls of the village, all college students, eloped with boys some time ago.</p>.<p class="title">He feels the incident has brought shame to the village. </p>.<p class="title">The panchayat based its decision on the "logic" that had it not been for communication over a mobile phone, the girls would not have eloped. </p>.<p class="title">The ban on jeans exclusively for girls comes after the panchayat felt that such modern attire attracts the attention of others, which can be avoided.</p>.<p class="title">Sources said the decision is now being communicated aggressively in the village through various modes, including broadcast through loudspeakers.</p>.<p class="title">There has also been some dissent to the diktat. One of the members of the panchayat has quit his post reportedly in protest against the move.</p>