Honour killing: Five held in UP

Lucknow: In a case of honour killing, the Bareilly police in UP have arrested five members of a family who allegedly killed a minor girl and her 19-year-old boyfriend in Meerganj.

Af ter thrashing and strangulating both, the accused had hung their bodies from a tree to make it a case of suicide. Initially, the police thought it a case of couple committing suicide after their family members turned down their marriage. But during investigation, it was found that their bodies were dragged in the field. The post mortem report also confirmed that the couple was brutally beaten and strangulated, said SSP Rohit Singh Sanjwan. The police said that the 17-yearold daughter of Tejram was in love with a boy of the same village. The girl’s family caught her when she had gone to meet the boy. The irate family members then strangulated both. Later, they hung their bodies from a tree.

The deceased boy, identified as Divyanand, was a part time driver. The deceased’s uncle Ram Ghulam disclosed that the girl’s father and other family had objections to the boy meeting the minor girl. –Srawan Shukla