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Neither rape nor suicide, but honour killing: police

LUCKNOW: A day after an 18-year-old girl reportedly hanged herself after having been allegedly raped by two youths in Baghpat district of western Uttar Pradesh, the police said it was a case of “honour killing.”

“The girl did not commit suicide, but was killed by her family members who did not approve of her relationship with a youth. It is a case of honour killing,” Special Director-General (Law and Order) Brij Lal said here on Wednesday.

Showing the autopsy report, Mr. Lal said the girl was killed and was not raped.

The girl's family members were detained for interrogation, he said.

On June 20, a first information report was lodged in the Bailani police station by the girl's uncle, Mahesh, complaining that his niece, who took sewing classes at the residence of one Usha, was lured by Pinky when she was returning home.

The girl was taken by Pinky to her house where she was locked up in a room along with her two brothers, and then raped. The girl committed suicide in her home, the FIR said.

FIR

But Mr. Lal said the FIR was lodged to mislead the police. He said that according to the post mortem report, the girl's body bore 10 injury marks, contusions, and a ligature mark in the neck, and she was strangled.

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