Honour killing: Man gets life term for murdering daughter in 2002

Principal sessions judge Anant Badar on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to a man for murdering his teenaged daughter in 2002 for an affair with a boy from another caste.

Principal sessions judge Anant Badar on Wednesday awarded life imprisonment to a man for murdering his teenaged daughter in 2002 for an affair with a boy from another caste. The accused,Arun Bandu Irkal,who was 50 years of age when the incident took place,reportedly assaulted his daughter Yashodha (17) about 48 times with a pair of scissors causing her death at their residence in Yerwada.

Police said Irkal was a caretaker with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Industrial Training Institute in Yerwada. His daughter Yashodha was a student of class 11 at Agarkar Junior College in Rasta Peth. She allegedly had an affair with a boy from another caste residing in her neighbourhood.

On December 20,2002,Yashodhas brother dropped her at the college. She went in but came out soon to meet her boyfriend. She went out with her boyfriend. Her brother saw them and intercepted them at Sinhagad road. He came to Swargate with Yashodha. But w hile he was making a phone call from a booth,Yashodha fled with her boyfriend. Her brother rushed to Pune railway station to meet his father Arun,who had boarded a train to Solapur. Arun returned home around 6 pm. Yashodha was home at this time.

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Arun questioned Yashodha about her affair and during their argument, he attacked her with a pair of scissors 48 times. Arun surrendered to police. After being released on bail in 2003,he fled Pune. He was nabbed in Solapur in 2011. The court convicted him for murdering his daughter.

The court also observed that honor of family and act of deceased in binging disrepute to the family by eloping with the boy from another caste gave a strong motive to the accused. The court observed that the accused was short tempered. Public prosecutor Vikas Shah examined nine witnesses including Yashodhas brother. Police said when Yashodha was in class 7,her family had filed a complaint against her boyfriend for allegedly kidnapping her. But he was

acquitted.

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