A MAN killed his 17-year-old daughter for having an affair with a boy in Banwaripur village in Meerut. Kulbhusan, according to the police, was upset over the relationship and had told his daughter Rajni to stop meeting the boy. When the girl refused, he strangled her. His brother Mahendra and son Dushyant helped him dump the body. The three allegedly burnt the body to hide their crime.

The Meerut police have collected Rajni’s bones from the spot and have sent them for forensic tests. According to the police, Rajni was having an affair with one Ravindra. Both of them were class 12 students at Rasna inter college. Ravindra told the police that they wanted to marry but their families were against the relationship.

Kulbhusan, Ravindra alleged, tried to implicate him in the murder but later broke down before the police and confessed to the crime.

“Kulbhusan’s brother and his son are absconding,” said the police. We have sent special police teams to nab the two,” he added.

Before killing her, Kulbhusan and his brother Mahendra forced Rajni to write a suicide note, said the SP. But he broke down and admitted to the crime. According to Kulbhushan’s statement, his family was upset over the affair and had told Rajni to stop meeting the boy. But she would keep meeting him.

They even told Ravindra to stay away from Rajni. “Kulbhusan and his family told me that they would kill me if I did not stop seeing her,” said Ravindra.

But that did not stop the lovers. Peeved, Kulbhusan along with his brother and son hatched a plan to kill Rajni and implicate Ravindra for her murder.[HT]

Honor killing, eh? This is completely insane. Just to satiate one’s ego, a father kills her daughter and plus her brother even contributed to it. All this just because women are still not treated at par with men. Any suspicion of infidelity and not adhering to family norms leads to the killing. But the question is, are lives of women so cheap that anyone can murder at will and that too one’s own blood? It’s got to do with the atmosphere we are groomed in; an atmosphere where family is above everyone else.

If you are watching the TV series 24 then you would know that even education doesn’t eliminates this sense of pride. Mr. Bouer murders his own son and nearly his grandson just to cover up facts. His statement- “your lives are not precision as the empire I have built all my life” clearly indicates his egoistic views. I know its just a serial but this is highly possible even in a educated and rational society. Pride and ego insinuates evil in the minds which no education can eradicate.

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