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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | ‘Honour killing’ stink in business student death by Tapas Chakraborty

‘Honour killing’ stink in business student death by Tapas Chakraborty

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published Published on May 10, 2010   modified Modified on May 10, 2010


The body of a business management student, head severed and legs chopped off, was dug out from a paddy field in Muzaffarnagar yesterday in another suspected “honour killing” amid fears that his missing girlfriend might have been murdered too.

Police today arrested the girl’s father and brother, though both had got themselves admitted to a nursing home.

Last month, a three-month pregnant Delhi-based journalist, whose family didn’t approve of her relationship with the man she wanted to marry, was found smothered to death in her Jharkhand home.

Koderma police later arrested Nirupama Pathak’s mother, the only other person present when the 23-year-old was murdered. However, a magistrate yesterday ordered the police to file a case of cheating, rape and abetment of suicide against the dead journalist’s boyfriend following a complaint by her mother.

Muzaffarnagar police said 23-year-old Ajit Saini’s body was found in New Mandi, about 7km from the West Uttar Pradesh town. Sources said some villagers saw body parts lying in the field and called the police.

“Ajit’s killing was most brutal,” SP (city) Rajiv Malhotra told reporters. “His legs were chopped off and head was severed from the body.”

The officer said a search had been launched for Anshu Tomar, 21, the missing girlfriend of the final-year BBA student.

Both Anshu, a BA student, and Ajit studied in City Sriram College in Muzaffarnagar district, 375km west of Lucknow. Ajit’s relatives said the two had been in love for the past couple of years but the girl’s family was against the inter-caste relationship.

“The girl’s family was against their marriage as Ajit was from a backward caste,” said Ajit’s neighbour Santosh Singh.

Both backward castes, the Tomars consider themselves higher on the social ladder than the Sainis.

Ajit’s uncle Ram Kishore said the couple had eloped in March but Ajit had called home in April to say that Anshu’s parents had relented and were willing to accept him.

“Ajit called on April 29 to say he was coming back to get married with Anshu, but after that we didn’t hear from him. We don’t know what has happened to the girl. She may have been killed too.”

Relatives said Ajit was planning to do his MBA from a college in Pune.

As the needle of suspicion pointed to Anshu’s family, her father Narendra, 52, and brother Anuj, 19, got themselves admitted to a nursing home in Barot district that adjoins Muzaffarnagar, only to be arrested minutes later.

Circle inspector Sashisekhar Singh said the police were questioning Anshu’s father and brother. “Both families are upper middle class economically,” he said.

On March 30, a court in Karnal, Haryana, had sentenced five members of a panchayat to death for the “honour killing” of a young couple, in a landmark verdict against such kangaroo courts whose writ runs strong in several areas of India’s backward hinterland.

But in a public show of defiance against the order, thousands had assembled in Kurukshetra last month and condemned the court ruling.


The Telegraph, 9 May, 2010, http://telegraphindia.com/1100509/jsp/nation/story_12428844.jsp


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