In a suspected case of honour killing, a 16-year-old girl was axed to death allegedly by her father and two brothers in Muzaffarpur Tikri village under Sarai Akil police station of Kaushambi, the police said.
The girl's family was apparently opposed to her relationship with a youth belonging to a different caste, they said. The police have arrested the father Malkhan Singh, two brothers — Radhay Shyam Singh and Ghan Shyam Singh. The mother of the girl has also been arrested for hiding facts.
Superintendent of police (Kaushambi) Brijesh Kumar Srivastava told reporters that the elder brother of girl spotted her talking to somebody over mobile. When he asked her to explain, the girl hid the mobile and even refused to divulge any details. This irked her brother who informed their father and other family members.
Soon brothers along with father attacked her with an axe. The girl allegedly died on the spot, the SP said adding that mother tried to hush up the matter. However, finding things suspicious, neighbours and villagers informed the police. A team of police officials led by SP along with forensic experts rushed to the spot and carried out investigations. The SP said the girl used to talk to a youth of different caste of the same village, aged about 22. Her family members had asked her to stay away from the youth. He said beat constable lodged a case under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) against the accused and the body has been sent for the postmortem examination.
MEETING: Former Chief Justice of India (CJI) and Rajya Sabha MP, Justice Ranjan Gogoi said that late Pt Kanhaiya Lal Mishra was a great legal luminary and new generation of lawyers would benefit and would also achieve great heights by knowing about his achievements in the profession of law.
Justice Gogoi was addressing the meeting of the Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Mishra memorial committee at the circuit house here on Saturday. At present, former CJI Justice Gogoi is the chairman of Pt Kanhaiya Lal Mishra Memorial Committee, which was formed in the memory of great legal luminary of his time late Kanhaiya Lal Mishra, a senior advocate of high court, who served as advocate general of UP for 17 years.
Secretary of the committee Santosh Kumar Tripathi, informed that apart from several sitting and retired high court judges, the meeting was attended by former chief justice Tarun Agarwal, Justice (retd) BK Narayan of Allahabad High Court, who is chairman of State Human Rights Commission, Justice (retd) Sanjay Mishra, Lokayukta UP, NC Rajvanshi, senior advocate and former chairman of Bar Council UP and president of Allahabad high court bar association Ashok Singh.