Posts Tagged ‘honour killings’
(Dis)honour killings!
Today’s The Hindu has two news items on honour killings. one in Noida about the killing of two teenaged girls while the other is the harrowing tale of a woman paying the price for loving a dalit by fighting a tiresome legal battle. The killer of the Noida girls says,
When the girls eloped from the house and everybody in the village came to know about it, should we have left the village or shot ourselves? So we had to kill them.
Magazines like India today irate us every six months with their exaggerated, class biased surveys of sexual freedom enjoyed by women in this country. In reality, for the vast majority of the women escaping the clutches of the male chauvinistic, feudal structure is quite near to impossible. The recent Rizwanur case of Kolkata or the Haryana killings that took place two months before do reiterate the fact. In the case of Lakshmi, she has insisted that the accused (her own brothers) be booked under the provisions of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. After 61 years of so-called indian independence, under the much trumpeted fair indian judiciary, it is still not possible to punish upper caste men on SC/ST prevention act. Bhaiyalal Bhotmange learnt the same through a bitter journey.
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Source: http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/07/stories/2008110760871200.htm
Sisters shot dead, honour killing suspected
NOIDA: In a case of suspected honour killing, two teenaged cousins were shot dead allegedly by their families after they eloped with their lovers at Greater Noida in Gautam Budh Nagar district.
The girls’ brother, Sonu (22), was arrested in this connection after he claimed responsibility for the killing.
Minor girls
“The victims were minors, aged 16 and 15,” Surajpur Station House Officer Narender Sharma said. “They had eloped a few days ago with their lovers. They were shot dead allegedly by family members.”
Senior Superintendent of Police (Noida) R.K. Chaturvedi said the families had traced the girls and brought them home after which they allegedly killed them.
The incident came to light after police recovered their bodies.
Six persons held
Six persons, including the fathers of both the girls, have been detained in connection with the murder, Mr. Chaturvedi said.
“When the girls eloped from the house and everybody in the village came to know about it, should we have left the village or shot ourselves? So we had to kill them.”
“I have a sense of remorse because they are my sisters and we have raised them. I have a sense of remorse for killing them,” he said. — PTI
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Source: http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/07/stories/2008110752470400.htm
Woman seeks action against brothers for killing husband
Mohamed Imranullah S.
She was harassed by her kin and locked up in a room for over a month to discourage any meeting with
Sivaji, a Dalit
MADURAI: A woman has sought action against her brothers under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act for murdering her husband, a Dalit.
S. Lakshmi (29) of Arithuvaramangalam in Tiruvarur district has approached the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court seeking justice in the case of murder of her husband A. Sivaji.
Ms. Lakshmi had to overcome several obstacles when she announced her intention to marry the Dalit.
She was harassed by her kin, shifted forcibly to her sister’s house and locked up in a room for over a month to discourage any meeting with Sivaji.
She escaped from their clutches and eloped with him to Dindigul where they took the marriage vows at the Malaikottai Mariamman temple. The couple lived together hardly for a few months, when death knocked at their door.
The bride’s elder brothers, along with 15 others, barged into their house on September 7, attacked her husband, tied his hands, stuffed his mouth with a piece of cloth and abducted him in a car.
Immediately, she lodged a complaint with the local police. However, later in the day she learnt that her husband’s body had been found near a riverbed at Thogur in Thanjavur district.
The police converted the abduction case into murder and arrested her brothers.
Narrating the incidents in her affidavit, she insisted that the police also book the accused under the provisions of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Convinced about the arguments advanced by her counsel R. Alagumani, engaged by Evidence, a human rights organisation, Justice G. Rajasuria on Thursday directed the police to alter the provisions, if there was no legal impediment.
