Girl killed for eloping with Dalit

In yet another incident of honour killing,a man slit the throat of his teenage daughter after she had eloped with a Dalit youth.

In yet another incident of honour killing,a man slit the throat of his teenage daughter after she had eloped with a Dalit youth. The incident took place under Charthawal police station area of Muzaffarnagar district on Wednesday.

Abdul Sattar has surrendered and confessed to his crime to the police after the girls body was found.

Muzaffarnagar SSP Praveen Kumar said some people informed the police about the body of a girl lying at a secluded place behind an unused room at a municipal building.

Someone identified the body as that of Gulshana (19) and said that her family resides about 500 metres from the spot, Kumar said.

During questioning,Sattar admitted that he had killed Gulshana when she was asleep at night and dumped the body at that spot. He also said that he had killed his daughter because she had an affair with a Dalit youth.

He had warned his daughter to stay away from the youth,but they eloped on October 23.

He traced the couple to a hotel near Roorkee,brought her home on Tuesday and tried to convince her not to marry the youth,but Gulshana did not agree,police said.

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