Eloping with her lover proved costly for a teenage girl when her own family members shot her dead just in the name of saving family honour in Hardoi district on Wednesday evening.
local police who rushed to the spot and registered a case against the victim’s brother and her father claimed to have launched a hunt for the duo but they were reportedly absconding. The body of the victim was also sent for post- mortem examination. Heavy police force was also deployed in the area after finding tension between the two communities as both girl and the boy belongs to different religion.
Reports said that 18-year-old Shubi, a native of Shakin hamlet of Hardoi was in love with youth residing in the same locality. Her family members were oppose to the move and had threatened both with dire consequences asking them either to give up their affair or be ready to face the consequences. They mainly protested the affair as the boy belongs to other religion.
Reports further said that the girl did not listen to the threatening call of her family members and when they put pressure on her and confined her in the home, she somehow slipped out and eloped with the boy about a month back. The family members not lodged any case in this regard but launched a hunt for the duo on their own. According to reports, after remaining on the run for several days, Shubi and her lover returned to the village hoping that the matter was already cooled down as her parents stopped searching for her. However, the matter took an ugly turn when her father Munir and her brother Sheebu, who were agitated over her immoral conduct of having relations with the boy had finally attacked her with shard edged weapons and hacked her to death on Wednesday night. Both the accused later escaped from the house.
However, Mohamed Raees, who was grand-father of the victim called the cops of local Thadiyawa police station and lodged a case with them naming his son and grandson behind the murder of his granddaughter Shubi. local police later reached the spot and started investigation after registering a case in this regard.
Meanwhile in another case reported from Meerut, an unidentified woman was found murdered in Dimauli hamlet on Wednesday evening. local police which reached the spot suspected it to be a case of rape and murder. Reports said that some local resident of Dimauli hamlet of Meerut informed the police control room on Wednesday late evening that he found a body of an unknown woman lying in the local jungles. The cops rushed and found that the victim was in her mid-twenties. Circumstantial evidences suggested that she was strangulated to death as her dupatta was found rapped around here neck. The body also had wounds of sharp edged weapons pointing the accused wanted to ensure that she should not remain alive. It also showed that they were known to the victim hence they wanted to ensure her death as otherwise she might reveal their names and they will be arrested for the crime. Besides her clothes were also not found in proper order and torn suggesting that she was sexually assaulted by the accused before she was murdered.
The local police, however claimed that they sent the body for post-mortem examination and were waiting for report only after which they will register the case of murder and other relevant charges. They also claimed to have flashed the message of recovery of the body so that if any woman having similar identity was reported missing from anywhere in the city they could contact the family members and confirm whether the body recovered by them was of same victim or not. However, so far the cops failedto get any success. They registered a case and were grilling over half a dozen suspects in order to get some breakthrough in the matter.