Couple killed for same-gotra marriage
3 Jul 2007, 0115 hrs IST,Ramaninder K Bhatia,TIMES NEWS NETWORK
KARNAL: A village in Haryana has claimed credit for a hoary "honour
killing", with three relatives killing a couple for marrying within
the familial gotra.
The village in Kaithal district now wants to felicitate the trio who
were arrested after the bodies of the victims were found a week after
the murder on June 15.
The "caste panchayat" of Karoran Padran Patti village issued the
diktat against Babli and Manoj, who eloped and married in court after
their families protested their union because they belonged to the same
gotra. The two were forced to drink pesticide and thrown alive into
the Hansi Butana canal after their hands and legs were bound. The
bodies surfaced on June 23 following which the Karnal police arrested
Suresh, an elder brother of Babli, and two other relatives — her uncle
Rajinder and cousin Gurdev.
A remorseless Suresh proudly announced that they were forced to take
the drastic step as the lovers had refused to see reason.
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