A case of honour killing has come to light in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. The father strangled his daughter to death as she was in a love affair with a Dalit youth and was adamant on marrying him.
A daughter of Gwalior city’s Girawai area lost her life because of a love affair. Angry with his daughter’s love affair, her father strangled her to death with a towel. Although the mother tried hard to save her daughter, but the father was hell-bent on killing her. After the murder, the accused surrendered himself at the police station. An 18-year-old girl had eloped with her boyfriend from Shivpuri 6 months ago. The police recovered her from Udaipur on 14th August. The girl was handed over to her family on 15th August. Her father tried to convince her, but she was adamant on marrying her boyfriend.
The accused father reached Girwai police station late on Friday night. Here he told the police that I have killed my daughter. Arrest me. Police officers were shocked on hearing this. Police immediately reached the spot. Forensic experts were also called on the spot. When the police reached the spot, the body of the girl was found lying in the courtyard of the house. A towel was tied around her neck. Her mother and other people were crying nearby. Police sent the body to the hospital for postmortem.
According to the police, the girl was friends with a Dalit youth from Shivpuri. The family did not like their friendship. The father tried to explain it to the daughter many times. The daughter had run away from home 6 months ago. The father had registered her missing report in Girwai police station. The police were continuously searching for her. She was found from Udaipur on 14 August.
When the father returned home on Friday evening, he told his daughter that if her lover was from the community, they would have married him, but he is from the Dalit community. We are going to get you married to a boy from our own community. There was a dispute over this. The father slapped the daughter twice, but the daughter said that she would run away again. On this, the father strangled her. When the mother informed this to both the sons, they refused to come home.
At the same time, ASP Gajendra Singh Vardhman has told that a man reached the police station himself after killing his daughter. He told about killing his daughter. After which the police reached the spot and after investigation took the body under surveillance. A case has been registered against the accused and he has been arrested.