Hindu-Muslim couple slit each other's throats in Taj Mahal 'suicide pact'

[faisal6309]

Hindu-Muslim couple slit each other's throats in Taj Mahal 'suicide pact'

AGRA: An Indian couple forbidden to marry because of their different backgrounds are in hospital after slitting their own throats in an apparent suicide pact at India’s famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal.

Police said the pair — named in the Times of India as Rajveer Singh and Shabnam Ali — were stable after they were discovered in a pool of blood in the grounds of the Taj Mahal on Wednesday afternoon.

“This couple, one of whom is a Hindu and the other a Muslim, tried to commit suicide at the Taj,” said police deputy superintendent Aseem Chaudhary.

“The girl cut her throat first followed by the boy.”

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Marriage outside caste or religion still attracts strong censure in parts of India and can even lead to so-called honour killings, carried out to protect what is seen as family pride.

“Both Shabnam and I tried hard to convince our parents that they should allow us to get married, but the boundaries of religion remained the biggest hurdle,” the Times of India quoted Singh as saying.

“We did this after failing at all possible ways to be together.”

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The Taj — India’s top tourist attraction — was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal, who died giving birth in 1631.

It has drawn a string of world leaders and royalty including former US president Bill Clinton, while Diana, the late British princess, was famously photographed alone on a marble seat there in 1992.

Hindu-Muslim couple slit each other's throats in Taj Mahal 'suicide pact' - The Express Tribune

 

[jaatram]

I hope both recover and get to spend rest of their life with other.

 

[third eye]

News ?

 

[faisal6309]

I hope both recover and get to spend rest of their life with other.

I hope that too. I also hope that now parents learn something from this incident.

News ?

It is a suicide case of two lovers from different religions near a symbol of love and you think it is not news?

 

[doppelganger]

Pretty gruesome and sad.

Thankfully neither was a trained surgeon. One swipe with a scalpel is all it should take ....

 

[jaatram]

I hope that too. I also hope that now parents learn something from this incident.

Nah I don't think parents will change their mind.

 

[Koovie]

What sad things religious fundamentalism does to our society....... holding it back in the dark ages

 

[Josef K]

Pretty gruesome and sad.

Thankfully neither was a trained surgeon. One swipe with a scalpel is all it should take ....

That's what I thought too. Going for the common carotid artery would have been the easiest thing.

 

[GURU DUTT]

so sad but the couple were harressed cause the "boy was hindu" had that been reverse non would ever known when & how they eloped .... sorry dont want to be labelled as communal but its a sad reality

when ever a hindu girls elopes with a muslim boy its called secularism but when the girl is muslim then mostly both of them are either sloughterred in cold blood or are harrassed by their "secular parents" and police alike

 

[jaatram]

so sad but the couple were harressed cause the "boy was hindu" had that been reverse non would ever known when & how they eloped .... sorry dont want to be labelled as communal but its a sad reality

when ever a hindu girls elopes with a muslim boy its called secularism but when the girl is muslim then mostly both of them are either sloughterred in cold blood or are harrassed by their "secular parents" and police alike

Every news channel would have been discussing it if it had been the other way around.

 

[doppelganger]

so sad but the couple were harressed cause the "boy was hindu" had that been reverse non would ever known when & how they eloped .... sorry dont want to be labelled as communal but its a sad reality

when ever a hindu girls elopes with a muslim boy its called secularism but when the girl is muslim then mostly both of them are either sloughterred in cold blood or are harrassed by their "secular parents" and police alike

To be honest and perfectly candid, its many degrees worse when boy is Hindu and girl is Muslim. We all know it.

 

[RazorMC]

Silly kids following every nonsense they see on tv like that Ishaqzaade junk. Why not just LIVE in another city?

And if you want to die, then die somewhere else. Why do this in a national monument?

 

[faisal6309]

so sad but the couple were harressed cause the "boy was hindu" had that been reverse non would ever known when & how they eloped .... sorry dont want to be labelled as communal but its a sad reality

when ever a hindu girls elopes with a muslim boy its called secularism but when the girl is muslim then mostly both of them are either sloughterred in cold blood or are harrassed by their "secular parents" and police alike

No, in that case you would say it is love jihad.

To be honest and perfectly candid, its many degrees worse when boy is Hindu and girl is Muslim. We all know it.

Yeah. Because girl not always have that much freedom in this part of world. Also it becomes worse if girl is Muslim.

 

[doppelganger]

Also it becomes worse if girl is Muslim.

That's what I said. A lot worse.

 

[faisal6309]

Silly kids following every nonsense they see on tv like that Ishaqzaade junk. Why not just LIVE in another city?

And if you want to die, then die somewhere else. Why do this in a national monument?

Its a symbol of love. They want their love story to live for centuries.

Nah I don't think parents will change their mind.

Yeah you're right.

That's what I said. A lot worse.

I read somewhere about Jinnah and his debate on inter-communal marriages for making a united and strong India. Shah Rukh Khan have already did his part from side of Muslim community. Now it is your time.