In a shocking incident, a man brutally hacked her daughter to death as she was adamant about marrying a youth of her choice.
The sensational ‘honour’ killing took place in Gurbakshganj area of Rae Bareli district when the girl confronted her father over her love affair on Friday morning. Surprisingly, the father sat by the side of the body till the family members and local police arrived at the crime scene. The cops later arrested the man and sent the body for post-mortem.
Reports said that one Jyoti (15), a resident of Kurmiyamau locality of Gurbakshganj police station area in Rae Bareli had passed Class 8 from Adarsh Shiksha Niketan last year. She was having an affair with a local youth to which her family was opposed. Her father, Vijay Kumar, had warned her several times and asked her to stop meeting the youth or be ready to face the consequences of defaming the entire family.
The situation took an ugly turn on Friday morning when Vijay Kumar was working in his fields. When Jyoti went to the field to give food to her father, she told him that she needed her Aadhaar card and asked him to give it to her immediately.
When Vijay Kumar asked the reason, Jyoti said that she needed it as she wanted to marry her lover in the court. This annoyed Vijay Kumar and he abused his daughter but when she confronted him and asked him to immediately hand over her Aadhaar card, Kumar brutally killed his daughter by slitting her throat with a knife.
According to the villagers, even before this, the father had tried to convince his daughter many times against having an affair with the youth but she did not agree.
The mother gave a complaint to the police. The police arrested Vijay Kumar and sent him to jail.
Meanwhile in Bidhuna area of Auraiya district, a Class 7 student going to school on a bicycle was crushed to death by a tractor on Friday morning.
The deceased student was the only adopted child of her parents.
According to police, Mansi, the 12-year-old daughter of Prabal Pratap Singh Kushwaha, resident of Dibiyapur Road, was going by bicycle to attend her classes at Holy Child School at around 7:45 am on Friday. She had just reached near the State Bank of India branch on the feeder road when a speeding tractor-trolley laden with earth coming from the front hit her. After hitting her, the wheel of the tractor-trolley went over the girl's head, killing her on the spot. The locals informed the police about the incident after which the cops reached the spot and nabbed the driver. The tractor-trolley was also seized by the police.
A case was registered in this regard and the body was sent for post-mortem. According to reports, Prabal Pratap Singh, originally a resident of Rooppur Sahar village, had no children so he adopted his younger Yogendra Pratap Singh's daughter Mansi after she was born.
Manasi was a Class VII student of Holy Child School. The parents had bought her a bicycle this year to go to school.