On Monday, the country woke up to the shocking news of the murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl from Pratapgarh district, who refused to let go of her relationship with a youth even after constant threats from her family. The police recovered the body from an open field in Sujanganj police station area in Jaunpur on June 12. The police arrested the girl's parents, two brothers, two sisters of the victim and also the youth.
Here is a list of the ruthless honour killings that happened in the last three months.
1. June 1, Bulandshahr: Mother arrested for killing her daughter
Afroz, 20, from Abda village in Bulandshahr was killed by her own mother Rubina after she refused to give up her relationship with a boy. Afroz had been working for the Pulse Polio drive when the incident took place. On the fateful day, Rubina, alias Bano, got into an argument with Afroz regarding her romantic alliance with a boy. The argument led to Rubina slitting Afroz's throat with a knife. After receiving information on a police control room about a murder, police raided Rubina's house where they found Afroz's body.
2. April 10, New Delhi: 20-year-old youth crushed to death for loving a 16-year-old girl.
Sagar's rotting body was recovered by police from an isolated place in Sahibabad, after it was dumped there by the relatives of a minor girl with whom the victim had been "having an affair" for the past one year. Sagar had been beaten mercilessly by the girl's relative after her brother-in-law spotted them together. They then confined Sagar for some hours and took him to Sahibabad in their car where they crushed him under the wheels of the car while the girl kept pleading for mercy. All the accused have been arrested.
3. April 7, Chandigarh: Bodies of couple dumped in suitcases
Bahalgarh police received a call regarding two unclaimed suitcases lying in a park, located on the GT road in Sonipat district. When the suitcases were opened, police recovered the naked bodies of a man and woman dumped separately in the two suitcases. While the woman's body was intact and she wore glass bangles similar to those of a newlywed bride, the man's limbs had been chopped and disposed of in the suitcase. The police which is probing the crime is suspecting it to be a case of honour killing.
4. February 15, Lucknow : 16-year-old girl sexually assaulted and murdered
The police are looking into the possibility of honour killing in the murder case of a minor girl in Kotwali area of Gonda district. The fact that the girl's family did not inform the police about the murder made the police suspicious. The girl, who had left home to relieve herself, was found dead after half an hour. The girl's body was intact with no injury mark but tests confirmed sexual assault.
5. February 13, Mathura: Girl burnt to death by mother and brother
Neeraj Kumari's family was against her relationship with a youth from the same village, Ajay, and fixed her marriage with another person. As complications cropped up for the marriage, the mother and the brother first strangulated Kumari and then set her body on fire. The accused first tried to dissuade the police by saying that the girl had committed suicide. However, the girl's boyfriend told the police that he suspected the victim was first mercilessly beaten up and then set ablaze.
Bihu Ray
New Delhi
June 22, 2015
On Monday, the country woke up to the shocking news of the murder of a 19-year-old Dalit girl from Pratapgarh district, who refused to let go of her relationship with a youth even after constant threats from her family.
Here is a list of the ruthless honour killings that happened in the last three months. India Today
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The National Campaign Against Torture (NCAT) in its “India: Annual Report on Torture 2019” released on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture stated that a total of 1,731 persons died in custody during 2019 i.e. deaths of about five persons daily. These included 1,606 deaths in judicial custody and 125 deaths in police custody.
Torture is perpetrated to extract confession or bribes and torture methods used in 2019 included hammering iron nails in the body (Bihar), applying roller on legs and burning (Jammu & Kashmir), ‘falanga’ wherein the soles of the feet are beaten (Kerala), stretching legs apart in opposite side (Kerala), hitting in private parts (Haryana), electric shock (Punjab and Uttar Pradesh), pouring petrol in private parts (Uttar Pradesh), applying chilly power in private parts (Kerala) beating while being hand-cuffed (Kerala), pricking needle into body (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), branding with hot iron rod (3-Year-old minor in Tamil Nadu), beating after stripping (Haryana and Assam), urinating in mouth (Uttar Pradesh), inserting hard blunt object into anus (Bihar), beating after hanging upside down with hands and legs tied (Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh), forcing to perform oral sex (Gujarat), pressing finger nails with pliers (Assam), beating with iron rods after victim is suspended between two tables with both hands and legs tied (Madhya Pradesh), forced to do Murga pose or stress position (Haryana), and kicking in belly of pregnant woman (Assam).
Indian police officers in the town of Nagina chased a group of Muslim teenagers into an empty house. They grabbed them and took them to a makeshift jail. And then, the boys and community leaders said, the officers tortured them.
Four of the boys, who ranged in age from 13 to 17, said that police officers used wooden canes to beat them and threatened to kill them.
Indian Police officers over the course of 30 hours terrorized them.
According to two of the boys, the officers laughed during beatings, saying, “You will die in this prison.”
More accounts are emerging of abuse meted out by police officers.
Almost all the violence has been directed toward Muslim residents. More people — at least 19 — have been killed!
Witnesses said that police officers opened fire on demonstrators with live ammunition, broke into houses and stole money, and threatened to rape women.
Police officers were encouraged by their superiors to kill protesters.
The Indian police have become a lynch mob! Inidan police officers having been given the green light by senior officials to use harsh measures against Muslims.
A 20-year-old Dalit man was allegedly burnt alive over his relationship with a woman from another caste, the killing causing his mother to die of shock.
The victim was beaten up, kept hostage in a house and set ablaze.
Locals rushed to the spot on hearing his cries and took him to a local hospital. He was referred to a Lucknow hospital but succumbed to injuries on the way.
India : Hyderabad : Andhra Pradesh Telangana2018-09-20
A father attacked his 20-year-old daughter and her newlywed husband in the heart of the city on Wednesday, chopping off her left forearm and slashing her jaw. The incident comes days after a Dalit youth was mercilessly murdered in front his pregnant wife in Nalgonda district.
Police said the father was upset over the inter-caste marriage — the woman an OBC (Other Backward Class), her husband, B Sandeep (22), a Dalit. Sandeep and Madhavi Chary, in a relationship for five years, secretly got married on September 12, despite stiff opposition from her father.
Madhavi was left with a 12-inch gash on her neck and jawline and her left forearm barely hung by the skin. She was in a 10-hour surgery at the time of going to print. Sandeep, in another hospital, received 10 stitches to close the deep wound at the angle of his mouth; the attending doctors said he was in deep shock.
