In a ghastly “honour killing” that took place nearly six months after she eloped and got married with her boyfriend from her village, a 19-year-old girl was hacked to death by her brother and mother in Goygaon village in Vaijapur taluka of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra on Sunday.
A day after they severed the head of the girl Kirti Mote, clicked selfies with the deceased and posted them in local WhatsApp groups, Sanket S Mote (18) along with his mother Shobha S Mote (40) surrendered to the police and confessed to their crime, prompting the police the two under arrest on Monday.
Kirti had earned the wrath of her family members after she eloped with her boyfriend Ajay S Thore (23) both from the same village and married him in the temple town of Alandi in Pune district. The family was not happy as the girl married a boy with criminal antecedents.
After living as husband and wife for nearly six months, Kirti and Thore returned to their native village mid last week.
Having learnt that Kirti had returned to their village, the mother and son duo went to meet the girl at her husband’s home and spoke about a rapprochement. A pleased Kirti went to the kitchen to prepare tea and snacks for them.
Before long, the mother and son followed her to the kitchen where Shobha held Kirti’s legs tight, while her son Sanket took out a sickle he was carrying and beheaded her. Kirti died on the spot.
Later, the mother-son threw Kirti’s head outside the house, went to the police station and surrendered. They admitted to the crime. Meanwhile the selfies of Kirti’s beheaded body clicked by the mother-son duo had gone viral in the local whatsapp groups
The neighbours saw the woman’s head outside Motes’ home and the headless body lying inside in a pool of blood nearby and alerted the police.
The investigations have revealed that Thore, a history-sheeter with some cases lodged against him in Vaijapur Police Station, was allegedly harassing his wife Kirti.
After a post-mortem, Kirti’s funeral was performed on Monday morning in the presence of her peasant father Sanjay Mote, and her in-laws.
