A cell phone ban

It seems that the cell phone is causing some problems for the Indian village Lucknow. The people in this part of the world traditionally arrange marriages between their sons and daughters. They do this in part to ensure that boys and girls of the same clan do not marry. There are occasional exceptions though and that is where the cell phone comes in.

It seems that the young girls are using the phones to meet boys and they then arrange to elope. This causes real problems as marrying a member of your own clan is punishable by death. The local village council has decided to ban cell phone use for the girls and to severely limit their use by the boys.