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Lucknow, May 8: 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.
This is the third killing this week.
A couple was killed earlier in Jharkhand and another killed in Burdwan, Bengal
When will our people stop this killing of their own children.
Times have changed, why don't they change with the times.
When child marriage was permissible and children wer married off at young ages, we could decide whom our children would marry.
But now we are educating both our sons and daughter up to at least the graduation level.
When they pass the age of puberty they observe changes in their body.
With the high dose of TV programmes with sexual content being blasted at them daily, it is but a matter of time that they will start taking interest in the opposite sex. From there it is but one step more that they will find somebody who they will fancy.
They see Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali do that so why shouldn't they do it?
If you are sending your children to college, there is a high percentage of chance that they will select their future spouses in college or their workplace. So, if you want to avoid these heartaches, it woould be best that their education is stopped after class 10 or 11.
This is not possible in today's world.
So teach them to be selective.
Let them know what is acceptable and what is not.
Let them know about your own culture and your way of living and if they have to select let them select one who could adjust to your ways.
But then, love is blind.
They may go out and do exactly what you ask them not to do.
What then?
How do you react.
I know it is very easy to advise when one has not been through that trauma.
However, killing is no solution.
You are trying to save your reputation by killing them.
But your reputation is going to be worse by killing them.
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