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Heavy verdict for honour killings
INDIA: India has appeared firm not to let the criminals committing honour killings, which has been killing hundreds of young men and young women for seeking free love every year, go unpunished from now on.
Five elders were sentenced to death and life sentences Tuesday by a court here in the northern state of Haryana for killing a young couple who married each other against the will of the bride s family three years ago.
This is the first time for an Indian court to seriously punish such crimes.
Manoj, 23, had married Babli, 19, from village Karora of Haryana, against the wishes of their family. They lived in Karnal town in Haryana, northern India, and were murdered in June 2007 after village elders accused the couple of violating the code of conduct related to marriage.
Manoj, who ran an electronics repair shop at Kaithal district of Haryana, eloped with Babli, resident of Karoran village in May 2007.
They were found murdered the next month.
According to the police, the girls relatives dragged the couple out of a Karnal-bound bus in June 2007.
The newly weds were brutally murdered and their bodies thrown into an irrigation canal. The couple was killed simply for marrying outside their gotra ( sub-caste).
And now three years after the incident, in a historic judgment, five persons have been awarded death penalty by a Haryana court in this honor killing case.
All the five who were given on Tuesday the death sentence are relatives of the girl, Babli.
They include her brother Suresh, cousins Gurdev and Satish, uncles Baru Ram and Rajender.
The khap panchayat (local village administration) leader Ganga Ram got life sentence while the driver, who was held guilty of kidnapping, was given a jail term of seven years. Karnal,Thursday, Xinhua
World News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
INDIA: India has appeared firm not to let the criminals committing honour killings, which has been killing hundreds of young men and young women for seeking free love every year, go unpunished from now on.
Five elders were sentenced to death and life sentences Tuesday by a court here in the northern state of Haryana for killing a young couple who married each other against the will of the bride s family three years ago.
This is the first time for an Indian court to seriously punish such crimes.
Manoj, 23, had married Babli, 19, from village Karora of Haryana, against the wishes of their family. They lived in Karnal town in Haryana, northern India, and were murdered in June 2007 after village elders accused the couple of violating the code of conduct related to marriage.
Manoj, who ran an electronics repair shop at Kaithal district of Haryana, eloped with Babli, resident of Karoran village in May 2007.
They were found murdered the next month.
According to the police, the girls relatives dragged the couple out of a Karnal-bound bus in June 2007.
The newly weds were brutally murdered and their bodies thrown into an irrigation canal. The couple was killed simply for marrying outside their gotra ( sub-caste).
And now three years after the incident, in a historic judgment, five persons have been awarded death penalty by a Haryana court in this honor killing case.
All the five who were given on Tuesday the death sentence are relatives of the girl, Babli.
They include her brother Suresh, cousins Gurdev and Satish, uncles Baru Ram and Rajender.
The khap panchayat (local village administration) leader Ganga Ram got life sentence while the driver, who was held guilty of kidnapping, was given a jail term of seven years. Karnal,Thursday, Xinhua
World News | Online edition of Daily News - Lakehouse Newspapers
