With the Supreme Court awarding a 25-year jail term to Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal in the sensational Nitish Katara murder case, we take a look at shocking instances of honour killings in India
With the Supreme Court awarding a 25-year jail term to Vikas Yadav and cousin Vishal in the sensational Nitish Katara murder case, we take a look at shocking instances of honour killings in India.
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Nitish Katara killing: In February 2002, Nitish Katara was abducted and murdered by politician DP Yadav's son Vikas Yadav and his cousin Vishal Yadav for having intimate relations with Vikas Yadav's sister Bharti. The Yadavs never approved of the relationship between the two, and Katara received threats several times. On February 17, Nitish and Bharti attended a common friend's wedding, where Yadav’s brother, Vikas, and a cousin were present. From there, Katara was taken for a drive by Yadav's brothers, and did not return. Three days later, Katara's body was found near a highway. He had been battered to death with a hammer, and then set aflame.
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Manoj-Babli case: Manoj and Babli, from Karora village in Kaithal district, were brutally murdered by Babli's relatives in June 2007. The cruel act was carried out on the orders of a khap panchayat, for marrying in the same gotra. On June 23, two decomposed bodies were found from Barwala branch canal in Hissar. Further investigations led to shocking details. According to reports, the couple was asked to accept each other as brother and sister. They refused, and then were forcefully fed pesticides. They were then strangled to death, and the bodies were thrown in the canal.
Bhavna Yadav death: In November 2014, a 21-year-old Delhi University student Bhavna Yadav was strangled to death by her parents, just three days after her marriage, because she tied the knot against her parents’ wishes. Bhavna was allegedly killed by her father Jagmohan Yadav and mother Savitri Yadav at her house in south-west Delhi's Dwarka North. According to reports, after killing their daughter, the parents took the body to Alwar in Rajasthan, and set it on fire. Bhavna had married 24-year-old Abhishekh Seth on November 12 against the wishes of her family members.
Dalit hacked to death: In March 2016, a young Dalit man was hacked to death for marrying an upper caste girl, who herself narrowly survived the brutal assault in a Tamil Nadu town. Sankar had married Kausalya, 19, who is from the politically influential Thevar community. CCTV visuals showed about six men attack Sankar, a third year engineering student, with sickles and machetes when he and Kausalya were walking on a crowded street. The killers apparently came on two motorcycles and appeared to have been shadowing the couple. Before escaping, the killers also thrashed the young woman, leaving her badly wounded. But she miraculously survived.
Father rapes, kills pregnant teenager: In November 2013, a father and another man were arrested for raping and murdering a 17-year-old girl. The girl had eloped to Uttan with a boy of her village in Gazipur district of Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Ramesh Rajbhar, tracked her down and brought her to his friend’s house in Dachkulpada, where both tried to convince her to leave the boy. When she flatly refused, the duo forcibly took her to an isolated forest area, where they raped the girl before strangulating her to death with her own dupatta.
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